Radiant City - Sprawl is eating the planet - and the kids are getting restless. Welcome to the neighborhood!
A must see for anyone interested in the form of the cities we call home... minicine? will screen the new documentary Radiant City by the Canadian duo, Gary Burns and Jim Brown, at the Columbia Cafe, Monday May 5. Doors open at 7PM. A $5 donation is requested and will go to benefit the newly formed Shreveport Historic Preservation Society.
Something's happening on the edge of town. There's a desperate housewife in the parking lot, a musical chorus line mowing the lawn - and a loaded gun in the upstairs closet. Politicians call it growth. Developers call it business. The Moss family call it home.
Turning the documentary genre inside out, Gary Burns and Jim Brown rummage through a toybox of cultural references - from Jane Jacobs to The Sopranos - to consider what happens when cities get sick and mutate. Cinematographer, Patrick McLauglin evokes an eerie dystopian monoculture while the soundtrack features songs from Joey Santiago of The Pixies.
Monday MAY 5 / Columbia Cafe / Creswell @ Kings / Doors @ 7PM, Film Rolls @ 8PM / $5 Donation for SHPS
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Bearded Child Film Festival 2008
minicine? host to Shreveport the Bearded Child Film Festival 2008 to screen a whole slew of short films from the Land-O-Lakes… the great state of Minnesota. This being the first time the tour has ever left the place they may be traveling beardless to avoid detection. The program is also a mystery… So from their website we offer their philosophy for selecting the films which might be in the program:
“At it’s core, the Bearded Child champions bizarre, absurd, and wacky wonders that most festivals wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole. We are much more interested in creativity and innovation over big-budget production and traditional cinematic values. At the same time, we have become a popular destination for “non-wacky” experimental and more personal films, due to the fact that few festivals accept such “oddities.” Basically, we want anything that challenges the norm, whatever the genre. Heart is key. If you are submitting for ulterior motives (like using it as a “springboard to Hollywood” or simply to please your university employers), we probably won’t be interested.”
Dan Anderson is the festival director and founder. He first began curating experimental films at age 16, and is currently working towards a career as a penniless vagabond.
MONDAY April 14 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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LOUISIANA STORY: THE REVERSE ANGLE
Sixty years after the release of the controversial movie Louisiana Story by Robert Flaherty, Louisiana Public Broadcasting has created a new documentary Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle that explores the legacy of the original film.
Acclaimed as “the father of documentary filmmaking” for his work on Nanook of the North, Flaherty’s Louisiana Story was his final film. It was film’s first look at one of the most distinctive American subcultures, the Acadians (Cajuns) of Louisiana, as well as an artistic triumph. The importance of this documentary was immediately appreciated in its day: along with an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing , Louisiana Story won the Venice Film Festival’s International Prize for its “lyrical beauty,” and a 1949 Pulitzer Prize for music. In 1994, Louisiana Story was declared “culturally significant” by the Library of Congress, and it was among the first films selected for preservation in the National Film Registry.
This program brings together the surviving key participants of the original 1940's movie and allows them to comment on this controversial film, including Richard Leacock, legendary cinematographer and associate producer of Louisiana Story, and J.C. Boudreaux, once the emblematic Cajun boy who personified Flaherty’s optimistic vision. Reverse Angle features diverse commentary from native folklorists, artists, filmmakers, and historians who have both studied and shared in the legacy of Louisiana Story.
Louisiana Story: The Reverse Angle was directed, produced and edited by: LPB’s Tika Laudun (Louisiana: A History). It was written and co-produced by C.E. Richard and narrated by Grammy-winner Michael Doucet. The original music for the documentary was composed and performed by Darol Anger. Gary Allen did the post production editing for the project which was photographed by: Keith Crews and Rex Fortenberry. Clay Fourrier was Executive Producer for the project.
This film is funded in part under a grant from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Foundation for Excellence in Louisiana Public Broadcasting. For more information, www.lpb.org.
This premier is on LPB / MARCH 5 / 7PM / Followed by the original @ 7:40 PM
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House Calls - minicine? will screen Michael Moore's SiCKO on Wednesday Nov. 14th @ 6:00PM. This screening, followed by a call-in question and answer session with director Michael Moore, is free and open to the public. This screening and call-in is made possible by Democracy for America. Film rolls at precisely 6:15PM.... Call in at 8:30PM. For more information about SiCKO......
Wednesday NOVEMBER 14 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 6:OOPM / Free!
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Jack Kerouac. Photograph: Jerry Yulsman/PA
Dharma Bums, Angelheaded Hipsters & Black Mountaineers - Shreveport Events Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Jack Kerouac's: On The Road. More Info: mpbookfreak@hotmail.com
Thursday, November 1, 2007 - Kilpatrick Auditorium, Centenary College
11AM- Charles Stein Convocation at Centenary College
Poet/Scholar Charles Stein (Hat Rack Tree, Secret of the Black Chrysanthemum) will speak.
Friday, November 2, 2007 - minicine? 846 Texas Avenue
7PM- Charles Stein Performance - Asiderials/Telestics
Stein will present readings of his works with images by Harvey Bialy.
9PM- Polis is This! Charles Olson & The Persistence of Place
Documentary by Henry Ferrini ------------------------------------------------------ About Polis is This!
Saturday, November 3, 2007 - minicine? 846 Texas Avenue
7PM- Group Reading - Our Own Celebrate The Beat Writers
Joanna Ballard, Stanton Dossett, Debbie Engle, Laura Flett, Noma Fowler-Sandlin, Michael Harold, Sara Hebert, Chris Jay, Kevin Meaux, Uriah Oxford, Michael Parker, Steve Parker, Pam Peak, Charles Stein, Michael Steinberg, Robert Trudeau, Kevin Willey and with film inserts of the period including: Bridges-Go-Round by Shirley Clarke, Motion Picture by Frank Paine, Go, Go, Go by Marie Menken, and Wheeeeels No. 1 & 2 by Stan Vanderbeek (Distributed by the New York Film-maker's Cooperative).
9PM - Robert Frank's Pull My Daisy* & Lowell Blues
Two films, one written by and featuring Kerouac, the other about him. ------------ About Lowell Blues....
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------About Pull My Daisy....
*The film and video of Robert Frank is distributed by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Also of Interest - On Saturday, Nov. 3rd ONLY! The annual Diwali - Festival of Lights will occur in Municipal Park celebrating the culture of India. The event is free, a buffet by India Kitchen is $10. 6PM
November 2 & 3 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue - Downtown / Free or $5 Suggested Donation
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Opening @ Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA ... August 1, 2007 http://www.billdaniel.net
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Screening - Sat. August 11 - 8PM - Free
"The best way to end a weird dream is to wake yourself up...."
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Oh my gosh! This is a camera?
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minicine?'s
X-mas Under the Ground
Rescheduled.... for SPRING 2010?
What?
Construction on our new space is moving along but will not be done until after the New Year...
..............of what year?
&
minicine? would like the Local Film & Video Showcase to be the opener...
To celebrate you, our audience and the works you have made.... (or are making)...
(If any submittals have a Christmas theme please fear not... We can make that work in SPRING...)
Sorry for any inconvenience...
But this does allow more time to finish a piece, so now there can be NO EXCUSES..
Happy Holidays!
*anyone up for doing an aluminum christmas tree exhibit at this SPRING show please get in touch...
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"I'll show you mine, If you show me yours...."
minicine? host back to Shreveport, Melinda Stone, (San Francisco / Super-Super 8 Film Festival) to screen new work and tell stories from the frontier... A somewhat anachronistic film maker, curator and researcher, Melinda Stone dabbles in it all to create an eclectic show that highlights her on-going interest in land use, amateur filmmaking and outdoor film extravaganzas. A kind of present day film impresario, Stone borrows from the past and infuses each of her unique shows with sing-alongs and other participatory fare. Stone is currently on tour with a program entitled “I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours” – and she stands behind the implied promise. Come find out what she means and check out her recent offerings including selections from her most recent site-specific film events – The California Tour and A Trip Down Market 1905/2005, a brand new sing-along, and Audience Analysis film. A grand time is sure to be had by all, as is always true when Stone visits Shreveport!
Show us yours... Do you have a film to screen! minicine? ask any interested filmmakers with a new short (under ten minutes) laying about to bring it down to add to the program for the night... Email us some info and we will include your work... minicine?
MONDAY November 20 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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Patched up Blue Jeans & Curtains Blowing in the Wind
Put down those tools.... minicine? host to stage local artist/musician Jimmy Cousins and traveling singer/songwriter Josephine Foster... Two, guaranteed to resonate, back to back performances marked by unique vocal and word quilts.
Jimmy Cousins, in a rare appearance, takes the stage with Ted Lindsay, to deliver a set of his magically "Jimmy" tunes... Best described in Google Land.... " his compositions “Peppermint Candy,” “Rusty Metal Sky” and “Pajamas & Platform Shoes” play like colorful collages of Louisiana landscapes, bourbon-soaked love stories and vagabond characters. Imagine a collaborative effort between Gershwin, Leadbelly, Tom Waits and the creators of Sesame Street, and you’ve got Jimmy Cousins". Note: "Virgin Mary Cosmos" will be animated live by Lovette and Miki...
Josephine Foster, on tour from Table of Elements/Locust, Colorado born, and fresh from release of her timely "A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing"... has, over the course of just a few years, captivated audiences and critics alike through a magnetic patchwork of recordings ranging from broken spirited balladry as one half of Born Heller, fiery psych rock gestalt with her rock outfit The Supposed (All the Leaves Are Gone) to the voice of an outsider folk siren (Hazel Eyes, I will Lead You). The one constant is the utterly overwhelming strength and seductive unease of her voice and the bravery of an iconoclastic spirit.
SATURDAY November 18 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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minicinergy?
Plunging further into the exploration of possibilities ocilating in and around music and film, minicine? host to Shreveport, Elmapi (Paris) and Matterlink (DC) for an evening of visual/audial sensitory stimulations. Traveling from Europe on a nationwide US tour this duo brings two emanations to stage.
Elmapi- As pop performer, composer, and electro-acoustician, creates a powerful blend of brut material, sense of voice, and a fire-brand attitude, "powerful woman-energy"(True Vine, Baltimore). Her Elmapi incarnation, the experimental electro-pop musician, urges found sound and 'wild sound" to interact on a par with vocal and rhythm. The result is something like Edith Nylon performing French pop with elements of musique concrete. www.myspace.com
Matterlink- 'is James Schneider - Filmmaker, "vampler", and sensoral experimenter, Schneider has been working with sound and image for nearly 20 years. From his teenage years in DC's punk community working in music and photography, to his films and 16mm projections during performances for groups such as Blonde Redhead, to his work as Matterlink, appropriately termed, Vampling.
Vampling performances of Matterlink lie somewhere between the movie and concert experience. Working both solo or teaming up with various musicians, he samples from thousands of digitized film/video fragments both shot and found, playing the space/time pockets from a midi-keyboard. These raw elements are then reworked, looped, altered forming sound and image-scapes punctuated by spoken and sung words.
This evening is opened by Shreveport artist, Jon Mackey, a possible vampler who didn't even know it...
Tuesday November 14 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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Call to Filmmakers...
Saturday December 9 -
minicine? will host it's bi-annual
X-mas Under the Ground
Local Film & Video Showcase...
This program is designed to highlight new work by Shreveport film and video artists. Submittals must be under 10 min., any format, and must be delivered by December 3rd. to minicine? at 824 Texas Avenue, Shreveport, LA 71101 by mail or hand. For more information contact: minicine?
The actual event on December 9 will be free and open to the public.
Make Movies Now!
Mosquitosophagus + Ceiling Songs + Smallsails
The winds are blowing a favorable direction for October 29th.
Smallsails (previously Adelaide) returns to Shreveport with new music and film... Hailing from Portland, Oregon, Smallsails is an instrumental rock/electronic group, integrating overlayed archival and original film loops with a lush combination of finger-picked guitar, live drums, warm keyboards, and laptop textures. Their performance is guaranteed to be a captivating, glowing multimedia experience.
Ceiling Songs are made from the ground up. Here is what they are made of. Mostly taped up player piano rolls, broken music boxes, stringed instruments, feedbacking squaky speaker birds, holy holy afternoon sunlight, self serving computer interruptions, archaic mechanizations, and all the sad and happy people everywhere...They made me do it....Ethan Rose is a musician and sound artist based in Portland, Oregon whose solo activities focus on the disassembly and reconstruction of familiar and forgotten noises. By making use of found objects and automated musical instruments as source material, his work is an exploration of order and accident; meandering consonant sounds that stretch the confines of the object's original intention.
Mosquitosophagus is Shreveport's own. Mesmerizing, hypnotic, a skillful blend of guitar, drums, violin, cello, live samples, loops, keys, various metal objects with found and original visuals in accompaniment.
Sunday October 29 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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Public - Service - Announcement
Sunday October15:7:30PM-Free
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Our Bodies, Our Sleeves...
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Upcoming Dates.....
Sept. 30- Saturday
Our Bodies, Our Sleeves + Make Out with Bears + DJ Stacks of Cash
Oct. 15- Sunday
Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
Oct. 20- Friday
Devil Music Ensemble @ Centenary Kilpatrick Auditorium... Nosferatu...
Oct. 29- Sunday
Mosquitosophagus + Smallsails
Nov. 14- Tuesday
Matterlink + Elmapi (Performance Cinema)
Nov. 18- Saturday
Josephine Foster
Nov. 20- Monday
The California Tour + A Trip Down Market Street 1905/2005 - Melinda Stone
Dec. 9- Saturday
X-Mas Under the Ground (Local Film & Video Showcase)
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The Ice Capades
On tour from the Windy City, The Ice Capades Film/Video Series is rollin' round, for a third year, with their favorite shorts! Leaving their home base, The Ice Factory,this team has set their sails due east to present an eclectic mix of hits from Chicago film/video makers.
This year's show includes immaculate conception, opera houses a blazin', an ear of corn, and a thumb-wrestling duel to the finish; sure to be a crowd pleaser in any state!
Featuring work by: Lori Felker, Alex Grant, Hans Peter Sundquist, The Jean Jeanies, Chris Collins, Camela Jean Christopher, Amey Kazymerchyk/Rae Spoon, Thomas Horne/The Silent League, Colin Palombi/Crash Davis, Lilli Carre, Shelly Dodson, Sara Jean, Chris Cowgill, and Seth Vanek....
(TRT: 70:00 all work on video). More info @ www.theicecapades.com or www.myspace.com
Thursday AUGUST 10 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5 Donation
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The TunaHelpers
Girls... What is the TunaHelpers recipe for fairytale nightmares? Cut out patches of your childhood terrors, the grandmother that soothed them, your first pair of teenage thigh-high stockings and the sound track that played in your head when you plotted the death of your first love...stitch them together with guitar strings and lace... stuff it with corn syrup blood and rotten fish guts and you've created a TunaHelpers doll of your own. This doll will sing to you with an operatic voice, will teach you to waltz to sparse drum beats, will dazzle you with its puppet shows and American Sign language.
Here you will discover a tapestry of gothic stylings weaving the doctrines of girly power, gross-out contests and sophisticated musical achievement that encompass The TunaHelpers. Let them be your favorite doll.
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A TunaHelpers Doll of Your Own
Directions:
-cut out patches of your childhood terrors
- 1 grandma that soothed them
- 1 pair of teenage thigh-high stockings
- 1 minute of your own personal revenge soundtrack
Stitch these ingredients together with guitar strings and lace. Stuff generously with corn syrup blood and rotten fish guts.
Thursday MARCH 30 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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Table of Elements
minicine? host musicians Tony Conrad, Jonathan Kane and Rhys Chatham to Shreveport for an evening series of consciousness expanding performances. The line up is as follows:
TONY CONRAD is a giant in the American soundscape. Since the early 1960s, he has utilized intense amplification, long duration and precise pitch to forge an aggressively mesmerizing "Dream Music. "Conrad articulated the Big Bang of "minimalism" and played a pivotal role in the formation of the Velvet Underground. Conrad continues to exert a primal influence over succeeding generations with his ecstatic oscillations and hypnotic drones.
JONATHAN KANE is a Downtown NYC legend -- as co-founder of the no-wave behemoth Swans and the rhythmic thunder behind the massed-guitar armies of Rhys Chatham and the rock excursions of La Monte Young -- and one of the hardest-hitting drummers on the planet. In his own work, Kane summons Swans' concussive wallop, Chatham's dense guitar strata, and the perpetual propulsion of 70s krautrockers Neu, then steers it all head-on into... the blues. In Kane's high-decibel swagger you'll hear the mind-blowing reinvention of both minimalism and the blues: guitar-driven minimalism propelled into the blues, and the blues exploding into guitar-driven harmonic maximalism.
RHYS CHATHAM, New York composer and 70's vanguardist, is credited with altering the DNA of rock, marshaling massed-guitar "armies" and fusing overtone-drenched minimalism with the fury of punk rock. His work prefigured No Wave and cast a huge influence over the work of his proteges, including Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth. Performing this material for the first time in two decades, this Downtown NYC icon revisits those glorious years in the life of a city and a milieu in which the raw, the sophisticated and the danceable merged.
Other performers collaborating in this event will include bassist Ernie Brooks, guitarists Doug McCombs, Chris Brokaw, David Daniel, David Bicknell, Jon Crider and Igor Cubrilovich.
Tuesday MARCH 14 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $10 Donation
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Quantum Leaps: An Evening of New Video
minicine? host Astria Suparak to screen a curated selection of new video work. Quantum Leaps includes work by the following artists: Daniel Barrow, Philippe Blanchard, Dearraindrop, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby, Jim Finn, Caroline Koebel, J. Macdonell, Jim Munroe, Liz Rosenfeld, Seth Price and Andy Puls
"Quantum leap", a physics term deriving from the mid 1900s indicating significant and swift advances (originally via a sudden shift in energy within an atom), became the title of an early 1990s American television series featuring a time travelling, body-swapping, do-gooder scientist. In 2006 this inspirational screening of new video follows suit, cataloguing heroes, compressing history, and hallucinating futures.
We are in a hyperdated time populated by minor celebrity comebacks and movie remakes, soundtracked by mash-ups and remixes, and backdropped by vintage/old school/retro simulacra. Artists now are as inspired by history they weren’t quite conscious for as by their lived experiences. Here it is possible to amalgamate eras, to break out of social and gender constraints, and to cobble together a fantasy lineage. Many of the artists bypass ineffectual adoration for social edification, by documenting communities, reincarnating overlooked experimental films, sharing Communist souvenir collections, assembling biographies of personal heroes, and dispatching personal visions of history through the storytelling tradition.
About The Curator: Astria Suparak is an artist who also curates for museums, festivals, and bands, including PS1 Contemporary Art Center, The Liverpool Biennial, Kurtzfilmtage Oberhausen, Yale University, and Anthology Film Archives. She also brings experimental film and video art to non-institutional venues such as skating rinks, ships, sports bars, churches and elementary schools. Her work can be seen in numerous publications, streets, and collections. Astria Suparak currently resides in Canada.
Tuesday MARCH 7 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 Donation
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Tungsten 74 (Brooklyn, NY) + Mosquitosophagus (Shreveport)
Our new space is not really open officially but we could not let this chance pass..... Tungsten 74, on tour, returns to Shreveport... Mosquitosophagus ReAwakens from a lengthy sleep...
Hard hats still required...
Wednesday JANUARY 11 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / Free
Who
minicine? host vagabond filmmaker, Bill Daniel to screen his new documentary, Who is Bozo Texino? followed by the"rappin cowboy", Chris Sand (AKA "Sandman")...
Who is Bozo Texino? is a film on the 100-year-old tradition of hobo and railworker graffiti. The project is the result of a 20-year study of "monikers " and is fabricated from hours of 16mm and Super 8 film, most of it shot on freight trips across the western US. The film includes interviews with some of the railroad's greatest graffiti legends: Colossus of Roads, The Rambler, Herby (RIP) and the granddaddy of them all, Bozo Texino. The film also catches some of the socioeconomic history of hobo subculture from its roots after the Civil War to the present day. Included are interviews with tramps that Daniel encountered in his travels. The range of the interviews, and the film's style deal with both the clichés and the harsh realities of tramp life. In researching hobo culture Daniel found the written histories fraught with myth, and was initially frustrated by the apparent lack of verifiable truth to much of the lore.
"At some point in the research, and in the filming, I had to give up on the idea of being able to tell every story down to the detail. One of my initial impulses was to create a highly resolved document that would allow people in the future to see exactly what this culture was like. Impossible enough. But at the same time I was painfully aware that to broadcast these discoveries would alter or wreck the innocence and freedom that was there. Gradually, I realized that to report on freight train culture I should just acknowledge this mythologizing that permeates the culture and adopt that as an essential part of my approach. But the difficulty was, at the same time, to present this purely documentary material that I earnestly want to be appreciated and preserved. And no matter what the disappointment might be in finding the lonely reality behind a particular myth or graffiti, there is a mystery, or truth, that will always evade the documentarian and the audience." - Bill Daniel
Following this screening and question ask'in.... Chris Sand (AKA "Sandman") will take the stage. As unpredictable as a cattle stampede, fierce as a badger, and lyrical as a child of Woody Guthrie, Chris Sand (AKA "Sandman") has been a cowboy and post-modern hole-digger most his life. He's a combination of Wyatt Earp and Will Rogers with a generous dose of saddle tramp thrown in. Pure cowboy -- decades of riding through the brush have scarred his hide. A time-tested warrior of dance halls and house parties, he stays strong by shunning all strong drink and tobacco.
Saturday JANUARY 7 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 7:30PM / Free
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