Re: Vancouver event and more

From: amanda christie (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2007 - 00:17:37 PST


hey flick et al....

here's the updated info on ben russell's other
screening in vancouver (flick has already sent the
press release for the march 24 screening... here's the
finalized info for the march 23 screening....
location... call the phone number for the location.)
and he's giving an artist talk at the emily carr
institute of art that afternoon.

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Hungry Ghost Cinema Presents the Vancouver Screening
of:

LAST REFUGE FOR THE SENSES or NOISE HIPPIES AGAINST
ALL WAR

Friday March 23, 9:00pm • $5
for location and/or further information contact:
604.682.3269x7466

Curator and Filmmaker Ben Russell in Person

Run a female artists’ collective, brew your own
absinthe, attend an
anti-gentrification community board meeting,
wheatpaste signs
protesting
the war(s), and then lose yourself in what may very
well be the Last
Refuge for the Senses. A new breed of
noise/psychedelia has sprung up
as
the only rational response to an increasingly
alienating form of global
capitalism, in an increasingly violent-and-joyless
politicized
existence –
this new media responds with a Chaos of Sound and
Light that seeks to
overwhelm you but stops before you’re lost, its kind
hippie heart still
beating out a space for you to occupy and own.

Think Global but Act Local and Better Yet, Act Analog.
 Like the
American
psychedelic cinema of the 60s and 70s, this crop of
contemporary 16mm
films enunciates an emotional response to an
overwhelming historical
moment (now). Their use of analog technologies, of
live soundtracks
and
cameraless processes is indicative of a DIY approach
that has its
political roots in resistance and its aesthetic roots
in a gentler
past;
geography has conspired to create a micro-movement,
for these are all
works from the same community (Providence, RI),
emo-activist films by
silkscreen artists and noise musicians and puppeteers
and sculptors
whose
political ideologies form the basis for their artistic
practice(s). In
a
community already well-known for its costume
collectives (Forcefield),
its
drum-and-bass duos (Lightning Bolt), its warehouse
lifestylings (Fort
Thunder, the Dirt Palace, the Pink Rabbit), and its
most graphic of
arts
(Paper Rodeo), filmmaking is a piece of a larger
whole, and these
artists’
seeming deference to a prior psychedelic moment is a
superficial one –
as
is evident in their relatively self-conscious means of
production, the
strength of these films lies in their denial of total
escapism, in
their
collective decision to create a communal experience
that can move
beyond
the screen and into the world outside.

Featuring music by Lightning Bolt, Mystery Brinkman,
Carly Ptak
(Nautical
Almanac), the Shirelles vs Suicidal Tendencies, Jodi
Buonanno, and
more,
we’ve got Noise Band Concert Footage, Direct
Dumpster-Dive Animation,
History Through the Eyes of Bats, Live Soundtracks,
Cut-Up Eyeballs,
Single Frame Collectives, Puppet Chaos, Analog
Transcendence, and So
Much
More.

This is the cinema of deliverance, the theater of
psychic hearts and
radical love - bleeding your eyes and ears clean of
the sorrow of the
everyday, swelling your body full with hope for the
possibilities of
today.

FEATURING: Black and White Trypps Number Three by Ben
Russell (11:30,
35mm, 2007), Paranoia Trilogy Part One: The Chemical
Bath by Xander
Marro
(6:00, 16mm, 2001), Scream Tone by Jo Dery (3:00,
16mm, 2002), Echoes
of
Bats and Men by Jo Dery (7:00, 16mm, 2005), The Red
and the Blue Gods
by
Ben Russell (8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005), 01/06 by
Mat Brinkman and
Xander Marro (13:00, 16mm, 2006), The Great Exodus by
Jo Dery (6:30,
16mm,
2005), L’Eye by Xander Marro (2:00, 16mm, 2004), Third
Annual
Roggabogga
Motion Picture by Forcefield (6:30, 16mm, 2002)
TRT 63:30

**This program is funded in part through the Rhode
Island State Council
for the Arts**

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