From: peripheral produce (email suppressed)
Date: Sat Jun 25 2005 - 20:50:40 PDT
PERIPHERAL PRODUCE
EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA: DISTRIBUTION/EXHIBITION
NEWS AND UPDATES: SUMMER 2005
www.peripheralproduce.com
new dvds now and coming soon. a look back. a look ahead...
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NEW DVD COMING SOON FROM PERIPHERAL PRODUCE!
Deborah Stratman: Something Like Flying
From the claustrophobic confines of suburban surveillance to the infinite
landscapes of the Taklamakan desert, Deborah’s films blur the line between
abstract and documentary filmmaking and capture the alien environments
within everyday life. In Order Not To Be Here confronts the hermetic nature
of white-collar communities by examining the ways privacy, safety, fear and
surveillance determine our environment, while Kings of the Sky documents a
tightrope troupe fighting for religious autonomy and political independence.
DVD includes In Order Not To Be Here, Kings of the Sky, and From Hetty To
Nancy.
140 minutes / 2005 / DVD
$24.95 - Peripheral Produce No. 13
available September 2005
NEW DVD AVAILABLE NOW!
The 70's Dimension:
What The 70's Really Looked Like & 70's Remix (Various Artists)
Peripheral Produce mavericks Matt McCormick and Morgan Currie curate a
media-archaeological treasure trove of dumpster-rescued 16mm reels
containing commercials, PSA’s, and TV ephemera from a delirious decade of
polyester and smiley faces. From the classic iconography of the Marlboro Man
to the absurd pitches for Jack LaLanne's "Glamour Stretchers", this
outrageously retro review of funky, clunky clips offers precious insight
into a lost, impossibly innocent world. DVD also includes 70's Remix
(curated by Craig Baldwin and Noel Lawrence), featuring scavenged film scrap
and celluloid collage from found footage filmmakers Matt McCormick, Thad
Povey, Tony Gault, Damon Packard, People Like Us, & Animal Charm.
100 minutes / 2005 / DVD
$24.95
AVAILABLE NOW!
Miranda July: Nest of Tens
With her meteoric rise as one of the most important voices in independent
cinema today, Miranda July is on a path to re-invent how movies are created
and watched. Nest of Tens, one of her first cinematic endeavors, is
comprised of four alternating stories that hint at a fear of life, eroding
familial relationships, and repressed sexuality. These perverse, eerie and
unnerving scenarios provide insight into the uneasy strangeness that lies
behind the everyday.
27 minutes / 2000 / VHS
$19.95
PLEASE SEE OUR ENTIRE CATALOG FOR DVDS AND VHS RELEASES FROM MIRANDA JULY,
BILL BROWN, BRIAN FRYE, MATT MCCORMICK, NAOMI UMAN AND MANY MANY MORE:
WWW.PERIPHERALPRODUCE.COM
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pdx film fest wrap up!
The 2005 Portland Documentary and eXperimental Film Festival has come and
gone and proven to be our biggest and most successful fest to date. The
festival ran for 5 days, with a total of 15 programs that included 8 feature
films and 81 shorts, and the archived schedule, as well as many pictures
from the festival, are posted on our website at www.peripheralproduce.com
The Festival featured many highlights, including the homecoming of Miranda
July and the Portland premiere of her new feature film “Me and You and
Everyone We Know.” We were also bowled over by Garrett Scott, who came to
town to show his new documentary Occupation: Dreamland, as well as his 2002
film Cul De Sac. We must also make note of the incredible collaboration that
happened between Portland noise rockers Jackie-O-Mother-Fucker and Detroit
video artist David Dinnell, who created a spacious and beautiful
audio-visual landscape at our opening night party. Other noted visitors
included David Gatten and Deborah Stratman who were both presenting their
new films The Great Art of Knowing and The Kings of the Sky, as well as
Roger Beebe, Bryan Boyce, Eric Ostrowski, and Cassandra C. Jones, who were
the non-Portlanders competing in the Invitational.
speaking of the Invitational, history was made as Vladimir became the first
ever Back-to-Back winner of the Peripheral Produce Invitational. In similar
fashion to last year, Vladimir showed up to the theatre with her 400
view-masters in tow, distributed them amongst the capacity crowd, and
conducted her signature “communal view-master experience” with Vladmaster
disks that she photographed, cut-out, and glued together.
The 2006 PDX Film Festival will take place in Portland during the last
weekend of April. A call for entries with submission guidelines will be
posted in September ’05 (please do not submit films at this time).
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There is a very nice feature article about Peripheral Produce in the June
issue of The Independent. It’s titled “Portland’s Creative Class," and more
info can be accessed here: http://www.aivf.org/independent/issues/0506.html
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Peripheral Produce is a video label dedicated to the dispersal of
experimental cinema, and is the provocateur of the PDX Film Festival. To
browse our catalog, find information about our artists, or to see
information about the festival or other events, please visit our website at
www.peripheralproduce.com.
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