From: Scott Stark (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jan 04 2004 - 09:35:58 PST
This week [January 4 - 11, 2004] in avant garde cinema
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This week's programs (summary):
* The Squall! [January 9, San Francisco, California]
* The Man Who Laughs With Live New Score By the Zag Man [January 10, San Francisco, California]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2004
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1/9
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia @ 21st street
THE SQUALL!
From out of the blustery north east it's...The Squall! Hurricanes of
experimentation reined in with tactical lassoes. Yes, friends, familiar
stories, cinematic gestures, and related miscellany are retrofit with
alien viewpoints in this curious, and often hilarious selection of video
shorts from the outer regions of NY. Including exciting sights from
Jeremy Bailey, Rosy Boyer, Carl Diehl, Wago Kreider and others still!
Plus live performance by Madera Road, who have nothing to do with the
blustery north east. Nevertheless, this local trio will use their
wonderful music to bring you to the point of missing your dead dog,
making out with strangers, and stumbling home drunk (in no particular
order) admission $5
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 2004
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1/10
San Francisco, California: Artists Television Access
http://www.atasite.org/
8pm, 992 Valencia Street
THE MAN WHO LAUGHS WITH LIVE NEW SCORE BY THE ZAG MAN
TRASH FISH ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION is proud to present Paul Leni's
1928 almost-a-masterpiece "The Man Who Laughs" accompanied by a new
score performed live by TFEC recording artists The Zag Men. Starring
Conrad Veidt, the whey-faced Mary Philbin, and Madonna impersonator Olga
Baclanova, The Man Who Laughs updates Victor Hugo's little-read
melodrama L'Homme Qui Rit with a thoroughly Americanized ending and
mega-budget production design - but no amount of Hollywood whimsy can
neutralize Veidt's bizarre performance as the facially mutilated son of
an executed revolutionary. For this screening, the original Movietone
score has been discarded in favor of metal-improv dissonance (courtesy
of The Zag Men), and a newly butchered version of the film has been
prepared - missing over half an hour of important footage, with two
reels reversed in order and most of the explanatory intertitles missing.
Don't miss your chance to see this important piece of Hollywood history
defaced by rock-and-roll anarchists! TFEC recording artists The Zag Men
(Lester "Tombstone" Raww, Col. Timothy Leather, and S. Dodds) previously
presented their new score to Murnau's Nosferatu at ATA this last fall.
Their Murnau trilogy will culminate in their accompaniment to Faust, the
greatest of all silent pictures, at ATA later this year. They cite
Zappa, the Residents, Robert Fripp, and Reagan's Polyp as primary among
their influences. Earplugs are recommended for those with an aversion to
"incorrect" chord progressions and/or heavy distortion.
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