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  • GAZE: Screening #2, Labor/Memorial

    In our second showcase of local and international works by women filmmakers, GAZE presents a diverse collection of shorts that run the gamut from libidinal sorcery to deadpan melodrama.

    Coming at the tail end of summer, Labor/Memorial includes a paean to the gendered dramas of home maintenance, and an occultist memorial that features the late great George Kuchar. We are excited to have many of the filmmakers in attendance this month, and can promise a lively Q and A along with an opportunity for the local filmmaking community to meet, conspire, and discuss our projects.

    Program:

    Waiting for Darryl, by Thalia Drori
    Spectroscopy, by Leslie Supnet
    Birthday, by Mari Okada
    Leonora, by Eliane Lima
    First, by Suzanne Oshinsky
    Craig’s Cutting Room Floor, by Linda Scobie
    Crying in Our Cars, by Isabelle Martin
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    GAZE is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. GAZE promotes women’s artistic expression and  creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium.

  • BLOODRAPE

    ATA and Shalo P present:
    IN 2013, A YEAR AFTER THE APOCALYPSE, CODE V HAS GRANTED VAMPIRES HUMAN RIGHTS ALLOWING THEM TO WALK AMONG THE LIVING. THIS EARTH SHATTERING FILM FOLLOWS THE NOTORIOUS 90S ALL GIRL VAMPIRE-HARDCORE BAND…

    The conceptual lovechild of three exciting bay area artists – Tucker Bennett, Taeer Maymon & Zach Shipko – BLOODRAPE follows the gruesome journey of an “all-girl-vampire-hardcore-thrash-punk band” as they eviscerate their way across a twisted American landscape, enlisting two counter-culture fans along the way to document a big sensational dip into the deep red bliss that is BLOODRAPE.

    Like a sexploitative parody of underground “scene” documentaries, BLOODRAPE plays out both comically self-effacing, sincerely strung together by the sinews of self-determination AND paradoxically as a sincere homage to the institutions of nipple pizza, blood cocaine, clay genitals, children being boiled upside-down (not in the movie), hardcore grrrls and an immoral love for irrelevant VHS camcorders.

    THE DEVIL MADE THEM DO IT AND IT SENT ITS CHILDREN TO BE CAST AS BLOOD-SOAKED ANGELS.

    See a veritable “who’s who” of body parts splash like “Pollacks on a canvas” – with wild surprises and some awfully poignant gore, critics have described BLOODRAPE as an “unforgivingly errant exercise in new maverick Bay Area filmmaking”.

    The program also includes a selection of “choice cuts” organized by  Shalo P – as the night leads up to a appointed “live” appearance by BLOODRAPE (IN THE FLESH).

    “five stars” TIM BUCKLESHIRE – North Hampton Review
    “George Kuchar’s dramatic turn was spellbinding” Eddy Fossil – Borntorunton Gazette
    “A film for the whole family – the whole family from THE HILLS HAVE EYES” Jana Vondz – Pulicetera Magazine
    “I almost threw my life away because of meth. Oh no, I meant AIDS.” – Folgers Crystals – South Hampton Review

  • Call for submissions: Big Muddy Film Festival

    The Big Muddy Film Festival, based at Southern Illinois University
    Carbondale has become one of the best-respected, wholly independent,
    community-focused film festivals. In its 35th year, Big Muddy is among
    the oldest student-organized film festivals in the United States.

    The Festival provides cash awards to the best works in competition in
    the categories of experimental, documentary, narrative, and animation.
    The program is juried by three artists or critics of national and
    international recognition. Past Jurors have included Barbara Hammer,
    Naomi Uman, Jim Jarmusch, Kerry Laitala, James Benning, Tomonari
    Nishikawa, and Sasha Waters-Freyer.

    A panel of local activists awards The John Michaels Memorial Film
    Award, which honors films that address themes of peace, justice,
    community action, human rights, and environmental conservation.

    As always, votes from the audience determine the Audience Choice Award.

    Submission deadline: October 15, 2012

    More information: http://bigmuddyfilm.com/