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DEEP LEAP is excited to present a two-headed demonsterative: Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Brel Froebe’s ANIMANIMAL/MAMMAL/MANIMAL, fresh from its debut in Brooklyn, and the premiere of Jesse Malmed’s SICK TRANSIT, GLORIA together in one screening. The programs have been hybridized, genetically-modified and flown this way and that over internets and airplanes, to create a heady jumble for Bay-based experimental media fanatics. In the first of hopefully many bicoastal shows this night brings together recent work from young artists across the country, heralding their commitment to an ongoing conversation.

DEEP LEAP is a San Francisco-based literary zine, DVD and organizing force for cooperative creative endeavors. Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa & Brel Froebe live and work in Brooklyn, NY and are currently involved with Light Industry, Film Comment, The Film Makers Co-op and PERFORMA. Jesse Malmed lives and works in San Francisco and has just released a DVD of his work through lasercave.biz. Ben, Brel, Jesse and many of the artists shown attended Bard College in upstate New York, where they were taught the value of progressive cinema and collaborative explosions. More information is available at deepleap.net.

Program:

ANIMANIMAL/MAMMAL/MANIMAL
Curated by BenjamÏn Schultz-Figueroa & Brel Froebe
September 12th 2008 at ATA

ANIMANIMAL/MAMMAL/MANIMAL is an experiment in translation that began as a narrative concerning the history of animals and humans. Sent to a myriad of different artists who each responded in equally divergent fashions. Using these responses, the screening recreates the myth for the viewer.

Expect dead pigs, furry wrestling, alien gods and more…

SICK TRANSIT, GLORIA
Curated by Jesse Malmed

SICK TRANSIT, GLORIA is a collection of films and videos hinting towards notions of transit, translation, globalization and movement. The eclectic program is guided by a momentum and internal logic of masked chase scenes through Prague wild/er/nesses, Roman bicycle jaunts, found-footage chemistry experiment graphic films and other unknown cinematics.

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Pedro Machuca is a boy of indigenous descent, brought into an upper class private school during Chile’s brief socialist era when the government of President Salvador Allende began integrating schools on a class basis. The film shows the class conflicts of Chilean society played out in the friendships of three students. All around them, Chile drifts towards civil war. The enormous rift between two of the students—Gonzalo, who comes from a bourgeois household, and Pedro, who lives a few miles away in an illegal shantytown—ultimately becomes impossible to bridge once the bloody military coup of September 11, 1973 erupts. Directed by Andrés Wood, Chile, 2004, 121 min.

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Mental-Rev Productions is dedicated to the production of edgy, visceral documentary that challenges American indoctrination and motivates people into action.  Join us as we show a series of short films- followed by an early screening of “Struggle” and the premiere of “Equality”.  All of which are followed by a discussion with those involved in the making of.

“Struggle” is a street level view of the broad conspiracy enacted in 2004 to ensure George W. Bush maintain control of the White House. This time the focus is on how the swing state Ohio was won by fraudulent and criminal activity.  We view the entire 2004 “election” process as an exercise in maintaining Social Control.  By examining this period of history, without the assistance of mainstream media but as grass roots journalists, we not only unmask a conspiracy that shames Water Gate, but also get a feel for the daily pressures the American Social Structure enacts upon its more oppressed citizens and residents.

“Equality” begins as a class project to gauge people’s opinions on the issue of gay marriage. Quickly the film finds itself amidst the efforts of opposing movements to deny or access marriage rights for same sex couples.  May 2008: a monumental supreme court decision in California opened the door for same sex couples to gain legal marriage rights under state law. June 2008: Gay and Lesbian couples arrive at City Hall’s and alters around the country to have their marriages recognized by the state November 2008: an election which includes Proposition 8- an amendment to California’s State Constitution that would explicitly remove the legal recognition of a Gay or Lesbian couple’s marriage is on the ballot.

Video is our tool of choice in the fight for radical social change, Power to the People.
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