From: Fred Davidson (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Mar 06 2009 - 05:17:58 PST
Dear Pioneer Species Member Kate Ewald,
Not longer than two weeks ago I heard while at work that they
have parties at Oberlin that are in the nude. I don't believe a word
of it. Can you help me? Is there any truth to that rumor? Although, I
will say, that while I was still a college student, in those days, in
the mid 70's, at Antioch, it is a point of fact that we did have such
a thing as co-ed bathrooms. That is to say we did make the showers co-
ed.
I think I should point out that in those days we didn't have the
luxury of separate stall showers. There was a single shared communal
shower. A single large room where if you were in it taking a shower
you could see, if you looked, everything!
Now that wasn't the case in every single dorm or on every single
floor, but, usually by vote, it was or was not allowed. There was one
girl on my floor that shared my bathroom with me my final quarter of
my senior year. Otherwise, all I remember is, for the two floors in my
building, Mills, we voted against it, we voted not to have it, during
my very first quarter on campus.
But I'd better shut up now before somebody else asks me, What
the heck for the love of Zeus does this got to do with independent and
experimental film? Because it really doesn't. It really has nothing to
do with it. It has nothing to do with Barbara Rubin's "Christmas On
Earth" whatsoever. It has nothing to do with film. I assure you. Not
by any stretch of the widest imagination.
Thanks in advance.
Fred (born in Cleveland, Ohio) Davidson
Boca Raton
On Mar 6, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Kate . wrote:
> Hey Frameworkers,
> Thought you all might be interested in this screening in the
> Cleveland area:
>
> FREE FILM SCREENING!
>
> THE TRANSCENDENT SHOW
> Screening curated & introduced by Ben Russell
> With works by: Nathaniel Dorsky, Will Hindle, Shana Moulton, Takeshi
> Murata, Ronald Nameth, Jean Rouch, and Paul Sharits.
> More info about the program at http://www.magiclanterncinema.com/calendar-ts06.htm
>
> Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 8pm
> West Lecture Hall
> Oberlin College Science Center
> 119 Woodland St.
> Oberlin, OH 44074
>
> OBERLIN, Ohio - Please join Pioneer Species and Viewing Positions:
> Contemporary Cinema in Context in welcoming Chicago-based filmmaker
> and curator Ben Russell to Oberlin for a screening of his mind-
> expanding program, The Transcendent Show.
>
> But first, close your eyes, picture a soft place, and repeat after
> me: CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA. And again: CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA.
>
> Let the lights behind your eyelids form patterns, let the stars,
> crucifixes, spirographs, fractals, pentagrams, and mandalas dissolve
> into you and each other and into the darkness that makes up 40% of
> your moviegoing life. Reach your hand out past the void that is and
> was yourself and join your aura with that always-flickering light
> you've come to know as Magic Lantern. Cast off your mortal coil,
> watch the sun bless the ocean with your third eye, and let the
> trance foam drip from your un-mouth as you're spirited away into a
> world of light and sound at a varying frame rate of 18, 24, and
> 29.97 frames per second. A world where Angela Lansbury is your host,
> where seizures sing out against war, where the Velvet Underground
> rocks in triplicate, where ethereal landscapes melt, where West
> African laborers channel colonial powers, where Manson dopplegangers
> are desert wanderers, and where the Glory of Light as Nature is At
> Long Last Revealed. If you think you're ready, then you are - open
> your eyes and repeat after me: CINEMMMMMMMMMMMMA…
>
> ABOUT BEN RUSSELL:
> Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator, and experimental
> film/videomaker whose works have screened in spaces ranging from
> 14th Century Belgian monasteries to 17th Century East Indian Trading
> Company buildings, police station basements to outdoor punk squats,
> Japanese cinematheques to Parisian storefronts, and the Sundance
> Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art (solo). He has made films
> about the assassination of Easter Island, the divining powers of
> Richard Pryor, and the end of the world. A Guggenheim Fellowship
> recipient in 2008, he began The Magic Lantern screening series in
> Providence, Rhode Island and currently resides in Chicago.
>
> ABOUT PIONEER SPECIES -
> Pioneer Species is a micro-cinema screening alternative,
> independent, and experimental media every Wednesday night at various
> locations in Oberlin, Ohio. Often, visiting artists and curators
> will be present to introduce their programs. The micro-cinema is
> managed by students of the Oberlin College CINE 323: Exhibition
> Practices in the Media Arts course.
>
> ABOUT VIEWING POSITIONS: CONTEMPORARY CINEMA IN CONTEXT -
> Viewing Positions: Contemporary Cinema in Context is a series of
> screenings and discussions that explore a variety of approaches to
> film and media practice today. Presented by the Cinema Studies
> Program at Oberlin College, with support from the Blanchard Fund.
> All events are free and open to the public. Organized in
> collaboration with Pioneer Species.
>
>
> Join the Pioneer Species Facebook Group:
> http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53023558433
>
> # # #
>
> Thanks,
> Kate Ewald
> Pioneer Species member
> email suppressed
>
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