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  • THE INVISIBLE FOREST

    THE INVISIBLE FOREST

    A theatre troupe camps out in a forest to perform their director’s vision of Antonin Artaud’s magic theatre of ghosts, gods and spirits. During their forest experiment Alex, the director, is haunted by disturbing dreams where Artaud appears and mocks his theatrical ambitions. When these strange nightmares persist, Alex stops sleeping in an attempt to regain control over his mind. Sleep-deprived and with his sanity pushed to its limits, he seeks help from a Psychotherapist who suggests hypnosis as a means to discover the source of his problems. What follows is a hypnagogic journey through the internal landscape of Alex’s subconscious memories and dreams, a sojourn that leads us to a place beyond belief, beyond words, and beyond the mind itself.  (2008; 111 min. USA; Antero Alli . Super-8 film, HDV & mini-dv)

    trailer
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkOevXUvL3s

    filmography
    http://www.verticalpool.com/filmography.html

  • HÄXAN

    haxan Forget Murnau. Forget Griffith. The greatest repository of images in all of silent film is surely Benjamin Christensen’s magnificent, loony HÄXAN, also known as WITCHCRAFT THROUGH THE AGES. Featuring crazed nuns, flaming witches, and a spectacularly obscene performance by the director himself as Satan, HÄXAN is like no other film ever made: an uncontrolled rampage of feverish, violent images, part historical recreation, part religious satire, all hallucination. Artists Television Access is proud to present HÄXAN in a newly butchered version, prepared especially for this screening by conceptual artist Dr. Astronaut Body. Now missing over half an hour of crucial footage and structurally reorganized for maximum impact, HÄXAN will be accompanied by a new score performed live by the San Francisco electronica band DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! Including members of The Pine Box Boys and Reagan’s Polyp.

    DR. PRISONER: THE BRAIN! is part of the same creative team that has premiered new scores for THE MAN WITH THE MOVIE CAMERA, NOSFERATU, THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC, THE MAN WHO LAUGHS, KOYAANISQATSI, and the Led Zeppelin film THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME, all at Artists Television Access.

  • TROPICAL PARADISE

    hawaii“Dug Out on Berry Street” by Michael Rudnick (2009, 18min)

    Shot primarily in the San Francisco Giants dug out and what the space used to be, the old No Nothing Cinema. Starring George Kuchar, Dean Snider and Rock Ross. The film also happens to be dedicated to those same three men. (A PREMIER)

    “Dr. Hawaii” by Michael Rudnick and Rock Ross (1976, 45min)
    The duos thesis film from SFAI, and outlandish comedy of epic proportions. Shot on massive sets with numerous famous actors. Think Kentucky Fried Movie meets Towering Inferno meets Hot Letherette. Not shown since the 70’s!

    Plus

    “A dramatic work in one act” Opera debut by Lukas Lukas with performance of Sunshine’s in Rain. the winds of tomorrow singing hurayyyyyyyyyy.  Love spreads in a ways that New Decade decides of lows and highs our quiet prey.