***Revised Program for May Day, May 1st

Inside Out, A special program curated to accompany The LOVE-HATE Show featuring the collaborative videos of Darrin Martin and Torsten Zenas Burns ...Presented by Darrin Martin!

Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin began their collaborations in the video and sculpture programs at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, where they both received their BFAs, 1990 and 1992 respectively. Burns was born in 1968 and received his MFA in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Martin was born in 1969 and received an MFA in media and sculpture from The University of California, San Diego in 2000. Together, they have based their single channel videotapes, curations and current performance works on their research into diverse Séance-fictions including re-imagined educational practices, cryptozoological musical productions, and trans-human sexuality re-constructions. They have jointly participated in residency’s at Eyebeam, and The Experimental Television Center in New York State.

Selected videotapes are distributed by Vtape,(Canada); Recontres Internationale, (France); and Video Data Bank, (USA). Videotapes have screened at venues including The Museum of Art and Design (NYC), Scanners: The New York Video Festival, The New York Underground Film & video Festival, The Chicago Underground Film & video Festival, Cinematexas, Pacific Film Archive (CA), Aurora Picture Show (TX),Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (FL), Monkeytown(Brooklyn,NY), Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain), Recontres Internationale, (Paris/Berlin),Oberhausen Short Film and Video Festival(Germany), The 4th international video festival at Art Space Bandee(South Korea),They most recently presented their curation Apportmanteau at the Filmwinter festival for expanded media (Stuttgart,Germany).

Volcanica, 2005, 9:30 minutes
“Ever want to be your own volcano? Or worship at a cave of discovery, only to find yourself in deeper than you expected, with no way out other than love, lava, and a lot of mutual understanding? This juicy piece will squeeze the best out of you and leave you changed for life.” Wego Krieder, Studio 27, SF

A feel good glimpse into a full-bodied lava canal, horror and hippies transmigrate through a portal that began through a hole in the head and activate a redefined eruption.

The Abominable Freedom, 41 minutes, 2006
Originally shot video and appropriated film is woven together to create a musical celebration of the flesh. An egg from the missing link holds a skeleton key to our educational future. On a parallel world, life coaches made of bone & fur activate televisual coursework including circular zooming studies, spectral-mating, and etheric birthing techniques. The spirit of Manifest Destiny eludes its colonial past to refuge deep within our pagan libidinal nature.

What If?, 2009, 11 minutes
What If? is one edition of a larger role-playing workshop where participants were asked to reenact a fictional polyamorous romance. The performers enact date rituals through various pairings of the relationship which ultimately leads to a group wedding. The characters are based upon two obscure Marvel superheroes and two internationally renowned art personalities. The happy foursome are Stelarc, an artist whose cybernetic mission in life is to render the body obsolete; Orlan, an artist whose actual redefinition of her own body via plastic surgery confronts representations of woman throughout art history; the Scarlet Witch, a mutant superhero who has unlimited powers over probability, and the Vision, a “synthezoid” whose mechanically fabricated body contains a human soul. What If? unfolds the entangled story that brought this romantic foursome together spanning the gulf between genders and representations; the body and technology. Originally mastered in HD video.

The Love-Hate Show, curated by Conchita Iglesias McElwee, will feature works by Shreveport artists, Sara Hebert, Chris Jay, Conchita McElwee, Michael Moore, Tara Streetman, Robert Rodgers, Shane Thompson, Micah Harold, Brandon Jenkins, Courtney Harold, Shannon Palmer, Chad O' Kenievel, Chris Stripling, Jen Wasson, Sizer Yeager, John Bentrup, Aubre Bauer, Venus Sheets, Mallori Brandon, Megan Cardenes, Kandi Kane, Jamie Anderson, Shawna Atkins, Mimi and Donnie Webb, Bregon Webb, Alison Wonderland, Jeremy Hayes, BJ Wheeles, Kathryn Usher, Dylan TIllman, Chris Beale, Amy Lynn Scott + more...

Capping off the evening will be special musical performances by The Peekers and Power Pellut...

Darrin Martin is a Bay Area artist, educator and curator. His works push the boundaries of their mediums through an incessant exploration of image processing tools and sculptural material investigation. Working with film, video, sculpture and installation, Martin explores how various technologies are used to measure and augment our daily perceptions and construct social and historic realities.

Many of his works have been based on his personal experience with hearing loss combined with fictions based on scientific theory and conjecture upon the nature of sound and other actualities inaccessible to the naked eye. He has also worked with the subjects of technological euphoria as embodied by the advent of aviation and the cultural embrace of the internet. Martin’s further interests in queer subjectivity and failed utopias perpetually collapse historical matter into the realm of the personal. One of his most recent videos, “Every (Text, Image, Sound, Movie) on my cell phone,” consists of a collection of material expunged from the artist’s cell phone, which becomes a reflection on the everyday as it is experienced through the lens of this seemingly indispensable technology.

Martin also has an ongoing collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns, creating artworks about re-imagined educational paradigms that tap into subjects as diverse as psychology, polygamy, and the occult. Their most recent collaboration, “What If?,” situates a series of role-playing workshops based on obscure comic book characters, Vision and the Scarlet Witch, with international art personalities, Orlan and Stelarc, in a polyamorous relationship. Martin is also currently working on a collaboration with photographer Jamil Hellu titled “Subjects Unknown” inspired by the ambiguous yet intimate relationships documented between men in the history of early photography.

Darrin Martin will be present to present his single-channel film / video works at minicine? along with an exhibition of artwork curated by Shreveport artist, Conchita Iglesias McElwee entitled, The LOVE-HATE Show... Music will be presented by The Peekers and Power Pellut!

FRIDAY May 1 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5

minicine? host Phantom Orchard / Sound & Space Experiments as an exploration of found sounds, electronic manipulations and classical instruments within the voluminous and diverse spaces of the Shreveport Waterworks Museum in the McNeill Street Pumping Station. Doors will open to soundscapes throughout the facility generated by local sound and noise artists, Generic Air, Jon Mackey, Ian Quiet and a site specific installation by The Occidentalists. The evening will culminate with a special performance by the avant garde New York City downtown sound artists, Phantom Orchard.

The Sound:

Phantom Orchard brings together Zeena Parkins’ inventive use of the acoustic harp with unusual playing techniques, preparations, and layers of digital and analog processing, and Ikue Mori’s innovative and expressive spatial infusions through manipulations of the laptop computer. Lynchpins of bands as diverse as DNA, Skeleton Crew, Electric Masada, Hemophiliac and Bjork, their duo project, Phantom Orchard, is the perfect outlet for their unique and personal musical languages.

Generic Air is percussionist, Peter Fetterman, and violinist, Destiny Toro, who combine stringed and percussion instruments with the guts of a piano to create a unique blend of melodies and experimental sounds…

Jon Mackey is a laptop computer explorer whose latest work uses time-stretched Baptist Hymns as a sound source, and is a meditation on violence and beauty…

Ian Quiet has experimented with techno-industrial to electroclash to eclectic electric and now ventures into space music and industrial percussion. Quiet explores his musical taste with whimsical lyrics, stock beats and dreamy synthesizers…

The Occidentalists are Jordan West and Allison Dickson West, manifest as the installation “Remember when we were birds”, an environment of pre-recorded and created sounds accompanied by visuals of blankets, paint and comfort…

The Space:

The McNeill Street Pumping Station, founded in 1887, was Shreveport’s first municipal waterworks and was established with the construction of a building on the banks of Cross Bayou to house steam-driven pumps. Portions of the original building and pump installation, together with major additions throughout the next 40 years, served as the heart for the city’s water system until 1980. Through a combination of circumstances, as the facility was updated, older technology was kept in place and supplemented with new. As a result, the facility is a virtual time capsule of waterworks technology and one of only a few such examples in the country. More info!

The Lagniappe:

World Famous Lagniappe Catering will provide Hors d'Oeuvres, inspired by the music of each performing group, throughout the McNeill Street Pumping Station. Learn more here...

SATURDAY April 25 / McNeill Street Pumping Station / 142 N. Common / 8PM / $10 Donation

The Robinson Film Center and minicine? co-host experimental filmmaker, found footage pioneer and maestro of San Francisco's Other Cinema, Craig Baldwin, to screen and discuss his latest experimental work, MOCK UP ON MU, live, in color and with sound!!!

"A radical hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western, and even horror genres, Craig Baldwin's Mock Up On Mu, cobbles together a feature-length "collage-narrative" based on (mostly) true stories of California's post-War sub-cultures of rocket pioneers, alternative religions, and Beat lifestyles. Pulp-serial snippets, industrial-film imagery, and B- (and Z-) fiction clips are intercut with newly shot live-action material, powering a playful, allegorical trajectory through the now-mythic occult matrix of Jack Parsons (Crowleyite founder of the Jet Propulsion Lab), L.Ron Hubbard (sci-fi author turned cult-leader), and Marjorie Cameron (bohemian artist and "mother of the New Age movement"). Their intertwined tales spin out into a speculative farce on the militarization of space, and the corporate take-over of spiritual fulfillment and leisure-time."

In addition, during the afternoon proceeding this screening, Mr. Baldwin will be at the Robinson Film Center to make a FREE presentation which will focus on copyright law, culture jamming, mash-ups and the Other Cinema Catalog (Upstairs in the RFC multi-use room @ 2pm)...

And if this isn't all enough, following the evening screening Mr. Baldwin will join minicine? (with 16mm reels in hand no less) for a blowout art exhibition with New York artist, Vanessa Boyd at the minicine? cave on Texas Avenue (See post below for more info)...

SATURDAY April 18 / Robinson Film Center / 617 Texas Street / 7:30PM / $5 (Lecture@2:00PM-FREE)...

"I am currently interested in the issues of reactionary art and art appropriation. Exploring gender politics through artistic expression in a milieu where women and the feminine are secondary to a dominant male culture means that much of what I am expressing is in reaction to that domination and stratification, representing the struggle against it."

"I am also pursuing the concept of “de-eliting” art, where all people can create art, be art and see art in what we do naturally."

minicine? host artist and musician Vanessa Boyd with an exhibition of various work including her Scream series line drawings and new mixed media work. The line drawings focus on an exploration of sexuality, sensuality and growth. There will also be a life-size fashion piece, The Industrial Dress, based on contemporary issues of art appropriation, that incorporates hardware store items into a thrift store dress.

“Boyd’s work is primitive yet sophisticated in that she is self-taught but educated. […] the work overall brings to mind feminist artists such as Judy Chicago or Miriam Shapiro.” - Wanda Rahm, Doak House Museum, Greeneville, TN

Live music at this event by: A.J. Haynes & Riverwolves... more, more, more..... Thank you 246 Dalzell...

SATURDAY April 18 / minicine? / 846 Texas Avenue / 8pm til / FREE (C. Baldwin will attend w/ 16mm!) + DJ

*Event includes: The Love Hate Show!

minicine? host Latham Zearfoss and DJ Ethan White to present a touring program of film and video... CHANNELING is an entryway into the spirit realm and the queer body politic: a program of experimental moving image work that calls up the ghosts of the past and the specters of the future. The intent of the program is to re-imagine film and video as occult technologies that allow us to connect with the bodies, experiences, and emotions that are often invisible– ghostly, even–in everyday life. The works in the program take a personal approach in dealing with the political and historical problems that haunt the queer experience: the AIDS pandemic (Renwick, DiStefano), the body in transition (Montague),the idealized nuclear family (Pena, Robinson), and the narrow cultural standards of desirability (EMR, Moulton). CHANNELING presents emerging and established artists critically engaging with these concerns on their own campy, poetic, sexual, humorous, and even utopian terms, using a variety of aesthetic approaches such as digital video, homemade effects, saturated 8mm, home movies, animation, green screen, and more. For more detailed info: CLICK THIS!

X-mas Under the Ground is back with local film, art, music by AJ + Paleo & More........

minicine? will host it's biannual local film and video showcase with a whole slew of new shorts by local artists and filmmakers... One of our personal favorites of the year, this show will be the one event that you can go to that will just keep on giving, and for the holiday season this is so appropriate... Included in the evening, will be art, art and more art, curated by Jen Wasson. Music will be provided by A.J. Haynes and touring artist, Paleo, and a holiday food table will be prepared by Greenly. All of this will be followed by a compact curated one hour of digital shorts by local creative souls.... including: Bill Daniel, Michelle Glaros, Sara Hebert, Chris Jay, Leo Kacenjar, Katie Matza and Matthew Keus, Mindy McKoin, Austin Meyers and Mike Schwalke, Shannon Palmer, Rob Peterson, Jon Rothell, and Students from the Renzi Art and Education Center :) Mark Your Calendar Now......

X-mas Under the Ground will be held Saturday, December 13. Doors open at 7PM, music starts by 7:30, films roll sometime after 9, all in the Lee Hardware Art Gallery at 719 Edwards Street in Downtown Shreveport..............


SATURDAY December 13 / Lee Hardware Gallery / 719 Edwards St. / 7PM / FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


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WILHELM HEIN, a pioneer figure of German experimental cinema since the 1970s will be at Zeitgeist (in New Orleans) with experimental filmmaker ANNETTE FRICK from Berlin to screen and discuss their own work and some of the masters of European radical cinema- Otto Muehl and Kurt Kren. As a filmmaker and organizer, he, along with his former wife, Birgit Hein, has had a considerable influence in the development of the experimental film movement in Europe. Zeitgeist is only one of two venues Wilhelm Hein & Annette Frick are visiting (along with Millennium in NY) in their first visit to the U.S. in over a decade. So this is major. Attendance is mandatory!

WILHELM HEIN: YOU KILLED THE UNDERGROUNDFILM OR THE REAL MEANING OF KUNST BLEIBT.. BLEIBT.. REEL FIVE (2001-2008) 55 min. Assembled from over 10 years of footage he shot and collected, Wilhelm Hein’s “You killed the Undergroundfilm…Project” is a fascinating and challenging example of what it means to make politically relevant underground film in an increasingly rented world. The films title is partly taken from a text of a performance by Jack Smith at the 1974 Cologne Art Fair that Hein documented and uses here in the films prologue. On the soundtrack we hear Smith's familiar, almost comforting, nasal drone bemoaning museums, the art market and artists whose images suck the life out of their subjects, and the thinning of art. Images of Hein next to various public sculptures and monuments in Poland, the Ukraine, and Russia accompany parts of Smith's rant. In this sequence, as in many others (for instance, the witty nod to Andrew Warhola set in Warsaw and scored with A Night In Tunisia), Hein’s unexpected combination of sound and image, of references and citations, calls to mind what might be one of the films central concerns: what can underground film tell us about the changes in Eastern Europe over the past 15 years? Hein’s revue-like film demonstrates the relevance of asking the question while offering numerous ways of answering it. The film functions as a burlesque show of aesthetic strategies and possibilities, invoking either directly or indirectly a mix of Heins favourites, including Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Nick Zedd, Arnold Schoenberg, Derek Jarman, Kurt Kren, Jerry Tartaglia, Samuel Beckett, Pete Seeger, Jack Smith, Andy Warhol and many more. Hein never slips into a mode of irony or cynicism while poignantly and beautifully juxtaposing an earnest humanitarian Michael Jackson song with some re-edited Japanese porn. With his sexy, playful and contemplative film, Hein asks of the underground what Jack Smith asked of Maria Montez: give socialist answers to a rented world! This rare program of Wilhelm Hein’s experimental films also include JEN SEIT a moving postcard to the late Jack Smith which he shot in Köln, Germany in 1993 and stars Zeitgeist founder Rene Broussard as Bacchus.

Plus Otto Mühl EARLY FILMS: Funebre l966 6min, Grimuid l966 9min, Zock Exercises (Das Ohr, La Dolorosa, Kardinal, Michelangelo) l967 12 Min, Psychomotorische Geräuschaktion 1967 12 Min, Wehrertüchtigung l967 8Min, Amore l967 3 Min. Otto Muhl’s aim was 'to overcome painting on canvas through staging the process of its destruction'. He made rhizomatic structures with scrap iron ("Gerümpelplastiken"), but soon he, along with Hermann Nitsch, Adolf Frohner & Kurt Kren proceeded to the "Aktion" in the vein of the New York Happenings and Fluxus. Gradually, Muehl began to distance himself from "Aktion". He regarded the "happening as a bourgeois artform, mere art".

FILME VON ANNETTE FRICK featuring JOYCE IN PREUSSEN (4 min.-2002-04), COSMIC ELEMENTS (6 min.-2002-2004), CHAUSSEESTRASSE 7 ODER HEUT GEFALL ICH MIR (16 min.-2003), SECHSMALSIEBEN (2 min.-2002-04), ALLENT GUTE KOMMT VON OBEN (6 min.-2004) and other works by ANNETTE FRICK. FILME VON KURT KREN - 2/60 48 HEADS FROM THE SZONDI TEST (4 min.-1960), 3/60 BAUME IM HERBST (5 min.- 1960), 13/67 SINUS BETA (5 min.-1967), 15/67 TV (4 min.-1967), GRUN ROT (2 min.-1968), VENECIA KAPUTT (30 Sec-1968), 20/68 SCHATZI (2 min.-1968), 22/69 HAPPY END (4 min.-1969), 49/95 TAUSEND JAHRE KINO (3 min.-1995). Berlin Photographer and filmmaker, ANNETTE FRICK, will be present to discuss her work. Ms. Frick, well known for her photographs of drag queens and the gay community in Berlin, will be screening several atypical short films. “COSMIC ELEMENTS is a camera-less film which I exposed and then developed using the type of photogram technique which even Man Ray experimented in. This film original is neither digital nor producible on video, and was created without a great technical apparatus and without financial means. In an almost abstract but very definite manner the film attempts to do justice to the primitive forms of plants in all their complexity and similarity." - A.F. “The photographer Annette Frick shows with her films in a dramatic way, what is lost in the age of digital images: the beauty of the film as material, the light of the projector which goes through the film and the unique possibilities to transform life into the screen.” (Wilhelm Hein 2008).

KURT KREN (1929-1998) was one of the great masters of personal cinema in Europe. His singular films were often very short and meticulously constructed. In the mid-1960s he filmed some of the performances of the Direct Art movement in conjunction with Otto Muehl and Gunter Brus. Zeitgeist hosted Kurt Kren in 1994.

minicine? welcomes back to Shreveport, D.I.Y. heroes the Gadabout Traveling Film Festival, with an entirely new selection of D.I.Y. films that run the gamut from smart, personal, political, to downright hilarious... This year's screening will be accompanied by an exhibit of prints by Justseeds, a radical art co-op featuring Kristine Virsis, and a riveting performance by the NY indie-punkers, Halo Fauna...

minicine? will host the Shreveport premiere of 'Salt Dreams', a documentary film by Shreveport native and current New Orleans resident, J.T. Nesbitt. The film tells the tale of Nesbitt, Andy Overslaugh and an abstract array of friends, who transformed a Katrina-flooded, completely destroyed, 1998 Lincoln Mark VIII (Stinkin Linkin) and "drove" it on a 2,000-mile trip in an attempt to set a land speed record at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The film shows the group, "The New Orleans Race Team", competing on an international level, not just as individuals, but as representatives of the last Bohemia in America. This is their story of loss and redemption in the midst of violence and tragedy, and of a community struggling to redefine its identity.

SPECIAL: Nesbitt, the entire race team and the "Stinkin Linkin", in transit to further competition at the Bonneville Salt Flats, will be present at the screening. Live music will follow by New Orleans based, acoustic-folk-blues sensation, My Graveyard Jaw featuring Stix du Clown.

In celebration of the season and in the event of disruptive telecommunications breakdowns, minicine? host LIVE, from San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps (via Cincinnati), and Ty Segall to Shreveport... all organized by and presented with love from the PEEKERS>>> But this event is way, way more... Including installations by Morgan Thomas, and a drawing experiment by Jon Mackey, Jen Wasson, Christy Herren and Allison West.

It is important that: "One effect of equinoctial periods is the temporary disruption of communications satellites. For all geostationary satellites, there are a few days near the equinox when the sun goes directly behind the satellite relative to Earth (ie, within the beamwidth of the groundstation antenna) for a short period each day. The Sun's immense power and broad radiation spectrum overload the Earth station's reception circuits with noise and, depending on antenna size and other factors, temporarily disrupt or degrade the circuit. The duration of those effects varies but can range from a few minutes to an hour. (For a given frequency band, a larger antenna has a narrower beamwidth, hence experience shorter duration "Sun outage" windows)."

The Rural Route Film Festival is a program created to highlight works that deal with rural people and places. This means screening these works at their home base in New York City, and subsequently touring the works to audiences nationally and internationally. While the term "rural" is defined by Webster's Dictionary as: 1) Of or relating to the country: RUSTIC 2) Of or relating to people who live in the country 3) Of or relating to farming: AGRICULTURAL; the creators of the Rural Route Film Festival leave it up to the film and video artists to explain their own definition of "rural".

The 2008 Rural Route Film Festival Tour includes works from Upstate New York, Montana, Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee and international locations including, Canada, Ukraine, Norway and Lithuania. This tour is sponsored by The Iowa Film Office (IA Motion Picture Association, IA Digital Filmmakers Guild, and IA Scriptwriters Alliance) and The Montana Film Office.



THURSDAY August 28 / The Naked Bean Cafe / 976 Jordan Street / 7PM / $5 Don.




+ Special performance: A.J.Lowring....... (Listen!)
A.J. will begin at exactly 7:30pm, films roll at exactly 8:30pm........ So come early !

minicine? invites you to a stepped up Art Night! What? Tuesday August 12, minicine? will paper the walls of the Lee Hardware Gallery with blank newsprint and provide crayons, pencils and other materials.... Come draw, sketch, express yourself to your heart's content... all to live acoustic music by Marion Paton, A.J.Haynes and Christopher Alexander... There may even be a projector or two rolling, so if your forte is film, you can scratch, hole punch, or watercolor on celluloid and loop your results throughout the night.... Doors open from 7pm to 10pm... $5 Donation... To get in the spirit, check this site: Paleo-Camera!

Going broke over 4 and 5 dollar gas, perplexed by the state of the nation, wondering about your civil liberties, have you ever had ½ a mind to put your 2¢ in the ring and run for public office? Continuing our summer of love series, highlighting recent works dealing with contemporary politics and culture, minicine? host Washington, You’re Fired! from the writer/director/producer team of William Lewis and Shreveport native, Keith Abel. Keith Abel will be present to introduce and discuss this non-apologetic fast-paced activist film at the Actor’s Cafe, 1401 Fairfield Avenue. For a full blown synopsis and trailers for this film see the website: Washington, You’re Fired!

Plan to stick around for a high energy mix-up w/ bands The Noids (Shreveport) and touring fave, Mad Happy (Pensacola).

FRIDAY July 11 / Actor’s Cafe / 1401 Fairfield Avenue / Doors @ 5PM, Film Rolls @ 8PM Sharp / $5 Donation

"The first step is admitting we have a problem..." minicine? host Blood & Oil, a new film from the Media Education Foundation, featuring Michael T. Klare, one of the world's leading experts on energy and security issues, and author of such titles as Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet, Blood and Oil and Resource Wars...

About the film...

The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded as nonsense or mere conspiracy theory. Blood and Oil, a new documentary based on the critically-acclaimed work of Nation magazine defense correspondent Michael T. Klare, challenges this conventional wisdom to correct the historical record. The film unearths declassified documents and highlights forgotten passages in prominent presidential doctrines to show how concerns about oil have been at the core of American foreign policy for more than 60 years — rendering our contemporary energy and military policies virtually indistinguishable. In the end, Blood and Oil calls for a radical re-thinking of US energy policy, warning that unless we change direction, we stand to be drawn into one oil war after another as the global hunt for diminishing world petroleum supplies accelerates.

MONDAY June 30 / Columbia Cafe / Creswell @ Kings / Doors @ 7PM, Film Rolls @ 8PM / Free

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

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

Where the hell is Bill?Video by Matt Petty @ CultureBlog

Opening @ Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA ... August 1, 2007 http://www.billdaniel.net

"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