Next event date: Distilled Motion II
Monday, July 25th, 2011, 8pm
Location:
Wildlife Preserve
parking lot of Lyndell's Bakery
74 Prospect St, Cambridge
DISTILLED MOTION II
Monday, July 25th, 8:30pm
Join us for an outdoor screening of frame-by-frame works by filmmakers from around the US, Canada and Germany. This is the second part of a program first shown at Spectacle in JP on June 23rd. All films will be shown on 16mm and super8!
Special thanks to Ken Field.
PROGRAM
KAKANIA by Karen Aqua (Boston), 1989
UP by Julianna Schley (New York), 2010
IN BETWEEN by Mike Stoltz (Providence), 2006
HADLEY GRASS by Zach Iannazzi (San Francisco), 2009
THE STORY OF THOMAS EDISON by Aaron Zeghers (Winnipeg), 2011
MICRODOTS by Gordon Nelson (Boston), 1993/2010
THE LIGHT by Jak Ritger (Boston), 2011
PULP by Flip Johnson (Boston), 1990
FE by Eric Stewart (Oakland), 2010
SEXY NOIR by Ben Popp (Portland, OR), 2009
UNSUBSCRIBE #1: SPECIAL OFFER INSIDE by Jodie Mack (New Hampshire), 2010
WALKIES: DOG WALKS IN SPRINGTIME by Tara Nelson (Boston), 2011
CAPSICUM by Deborah Phillips (Berlin), 2008
STILLS
Capsicum, Deborah Phillips
Microdots, Gordon Nelson
PICTURES FROM DISTILLED MOTION I
DISTILLED MOTION I
Thursday, June 23rd, 8pm
Allow your eyes to be hypnotized and your mind to be fooled into seeing things that never were. Thousands of individually rendered frames express movement not captured but merely implied. Some works possess a quiet grace; some produce a wonderful malaise through erratic colors, textures and sounds. All willfully exploit the entrancing flicker of analog film projection.
(Save the date of July 25th for Distilled Motion II, featuring a completely different program in the parking lot of Lyndell's Bakery in Cambridge.)
Thank you: Ricardo De Lima, Ken Field, Dagmar Kamlah, Ken Michaels, Liz Munsell, Bikes Not Bombs, Sam Adams Brewery.
PROGRAM
Perpetual Motion, Karen Aqua (Boston), 1992, 5 min
A shrine to ritualized time.
Zeil-Film, Urs Breitenstein (Frankfurt), 1980, 6 min
The camera rotates on the main shopping street, Zeil, in a structural pattern of acceleration.
Dig, Rob Todd (Boston), 2007, 2.5 min
A constricted frame in agitation ... the sweet music of jackhammers raging throughout - with Intermission.
I Swim Now, Sarah Biagini (Boulder), 2010, 8.5 min
An exploration of the experiences of one Violet Jessop, who happened to be aboard all three sister-ships of the White Star Line -- the Olympic, the Titanic, and the Britannic -- while each suffered varying degrees of collision and wreckage at sea.
I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bat and Hat, Becky James (New York), 2008, 5 min
A lyrical and monstrous meditation on when the mundane becomes gruesome.
Pillager, Joshua Lewis (New York), 2011, 4 min
A document of aggressive and proximate manipulations of competing photographic reactions.
The Roar from Within, Flip Johnson (Boston), 1982, 6.5 min
A personal, psychological horror film, painted on paper in dark watercolors.
Tusslemuscle, Steve Cossman (New York), 2007-09, 5 min
Seven thousand Viewmaster cells & splicing tape.
Word Picture Verses, C. David Goodrich (Boston), 2005, 4 min
A life story told in India ink.
Kosmos, Thorsten Fleisch (Berlin), 2004, 5 min
The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics of all ages?
Star Film, Saul Levine (Boston), 1971, 15 min
Starring a hand-made emulsion.
STILLS
I Swim Now, Sarah Biagini
I Hate You Don't Touch Me or Bat and Hat, Becky James
Zeil-Film, Urs Breitenstein
PICTURES FROM COUSTEAU (11/05/10)
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FIRST SCREENING: JACQUES COUSTEAU CENTENARY CELEBRATION
ATTENTION, s'il vous plaît!
The location of our event has changed to Ad Hoc. at 128 Brookside Ave in JP. It's only a block away from the Green Street T Stop and a very short walk from our original venue.
From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free. (Jacques Cousteau)
In June of this year our favorite underwater explorer would have turned a hundred years old. On November 5th, a bit belatedly, we are having a Jacques Cousteau birthday bash at Jamaica Plain's awesome semi-new venue, the Temple. We will be projecting three 16mm prints (!) from the TV series called
The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau:
Octopus, Octopus (1971)
Sharks (1968)
The Savage World of the Coral Jungle (1968)
With musical interludes by
the Grand Mandibles!
Thank you to Christina Spinelli, Brian Buccaroni, Adam Paradis, Ad Hoc., and Temple Sound&Stage.
GET DEEP LIKE JACQUES COUSTEAU
Cousteau was a scientist, inventor, filmmaker, philosopher who has affected many a young imagination (not to mention headwear trends and Wes Anderson movies). He was committed to saving the oceans and held strong views on the hazards of human population growth. He once said in an interview, "World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable."
Throughout his career, Cousteau was supported in every way by his wife Simone, who never appeared in any of the films. She was the Jeanne-Claude to his Christo. She was also the first female scuba diver. One year after her death, Cousteau married his long-time lover Francine, who had had two of his children out of wedlock. Francine is currently the president of the Cousteau Society.
During the filming of The Undersea World, Cousteau sailed on Calypso, a British Royal Navy minesweeper that had been refitted for oceanographic research and equipped with a helicopter pad and an underwater "nose," through which a crew member could observe the waters. The ship lived a long and adventurous life until it was accidentally rammed by a barge in 1996. Cousteau died the following year. Calypso has since been lifted from the sea floor and was to be transformed into a museum for its owner's centenary. Unfortunately, due to financial issues, it is still in pieces in a Breton hangar. Notably, Cousteau has said about Calypso, "I would rather sink her than allow her to be turned into a museum . . . I don't want this legendary ship to be prostituted by having people picnicking on the decks."
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