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A Hundred Dollars and a T-Shirt: A video documentary about zines in the Northwest US (65 mins.) is a new documentary by Joe Biel, co-owner, Microcosm Publishing and publisher of The Stolen Sharpie Revolution. The documentary is a cultural analysis of what causes zine makers to tick; what the hell zines are, why people make zines, the origin of zines, the resources and community available for zine makers, and the future of zines. The video contains interviews with about 70 zine makers, ex-zine makers, and readers from the northwest, with footage from the Portland Zine Symposium, other zine events and activities bringing zine culture to life. For people with a new interest in zines as well as pros and novices, the video sparks untapped creativity and new interest in zine making and reading.  Artwork by Cristy Road and music by J Church, Fer De Lance, and Defiance, OH! Collaborators include Rev. Phil Sano, Basil Shadid, and Joe Biel.

The SF Zine Fest runs from saturday – sunday, september 4th and 5th from 10am-4pm at Cellspace, 2050 Bryant street in San Francisco.

• http://www.sfzinefest.com

For more information about Microcosm Publishing, go to http://microcosmpublishing.com.

Also, join Biel and others at the San Jose Museum of Art on Saturday, September 11, 2004 for “The Whys and Hows of the Zine Revolution“.

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