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The first film festival where the audience gets to help the film makers finish up their work. This is a new idea in film festivals and market research The audience finally gets to have a chance for all those “Well, if I was making this film…” to be heard . The film makers get to hear the general publics opinion of their work, while there is still time to make changes. Big budget Hollywood films can do market research, but besides opinions of friends and family, low to zero budget independent film makers rarely get this feedback.

FILMS

(new, classic, unfinished, trailers – so far)

“Swing Serenade”

“The Nemesis With In”

“Washington Interns”

“Get up, Bitch”

“Food Not Bombs Footage”

“Lucid”

“Our Lady of Sorrow”

More info at:

http://www.lilycat.com/rufffilms.html

Tonight we’re indulging in a genre of bizarre storytelling and mischief which loosely fits in the category of illegal art, a category which Carrie McLaren, founder and editor of Stay Free! magazine, put in the spotlight last year in the exhibition “Illegal Art” at the SF MoMA .

Tonight’s show features Wizard People, Dear Readers, Brad Neely’s unauthorized re-envisioning of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.  The movie is played with the sound off while Neely’s narration on CD is turned up, replacing the original soundtrack. 

Appropriately, it all got started in a bar. “Some friends and I were out drinking,” as Neely tells it, “and we saw this intense guy over in the corner shooting pool, hat masking his face, wearing dark glasses and a Walkman. All by himself. And he looked so focused that we were like, ‘What’s he listening to?’ And we start pitching ideas to each other, trying to be funny, and somebody said it was probably a book on tape of Harry Potter. So then all at once, I’m doing this voice of Steven Jesse Bernstein, the poet, saying, ‘then Harry gets on his broom and rips the air a new one.’ Just rattling off a bunch of raunchy stuff, and everybody there started telling me that I really should actually make the book on tape, and so I ended up making this.” – from an article in the Austin Chronicle.

We’ll also be showing parts of the Wizard of Oz with Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon , a little of Woody Allen’s What’s Up, Tiger Lily? (1966), and clips from Mystery Science Theater 3000 .

Wizard People, Dear Readers has no affiliation with Warner Brothers or the creators of Harry Potter.

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org
http://www.illegal-art.org

The object of a near-universal (and eternally abiding) adoration by film fanatics all over the world since its first release, Robert Wiene’s German horror classic “THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI” (1919) is certainly one of the most visually striking films ever made – once seen, never forgotten. Who among you can say that Conrad Veidt hasn’t crawled across the painted sets of your nightmares – or your deepest fantasies?

“CALIGARI” will tonight be presented with a new score, composed for this screening and performed live by Trash Fish Entertainment Corporation recording artists “The Zag Men”, that will do musical justice to the Expressionist décor, convoluted narrative, and paranoid ideations of this canonical film text.

“The Zag Men” are currently recording their debut album for Trash Fish. They have previously performed new scores for Murnau’s “Nosferatu” and Paul Leni’s “The Man Who Laughs’, both at Artists Television Access. Their Murnau trilogy will continue with “The Last Laugh” and “Faust”, both to be presented at ATA later this Year.

“The Zag Men” are Les Raww (guitar, violin), Col. Timothy Leather (upright and electric bass), and “Uncle” Dodds (drums & allsorts). They are joined for this screening by special guest pianist Astronaut Body of “Reagan’s Polyp”. www.thezagmen.com