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Chicago Underground Duo
Chicago Underground Duo is the avant-jazz pairing of Rob Mazurek, cornetist, and Chad Taylor, drummer/percussionist. A satellite of the Chicago Underground Orchestra, they began collaboration as a duo in 1997 and have numerous recordings on the Thrill Jockey label. Recently having released their first album in four years, Boca Negra, they are celebrating by performing select concerts throughout the US midwest, south, southwest and west coast... and on Sunday, February 7 they will be in Shreveport for a matinee performance at Centenary's Kilpatrick Auditorium.
This will be their only concert tour stop in the south. Sponsors for this concert are KSCL, the Centenary Activities Board and minicine?
Show will start promptly at 3:30pm... FREE!
From ALL ABOUT JAZZ --- "Percussionist Chad Taylor and cornet player Rob Mazurek are the Chicago Underground Duo. Since the Chicago Underground collective expands or contracts with each project, they're also two-thirds of the Chicago Underground Trio and half of the Chicago Underground Quartet. Born in the 1990's out of the fertile Chicago improv scene, the group has, in its various permutations, produced a consistently excellent body of recorded music that mixes large amounts of improvisation with electronica, sampling, and a vast assortment of world music influences that are always organically absorbed--- never self-consciously imitated."
SUNDAY February 7 / Centenary College / Kilpatrick Auditorium / 3:30pm / FREE!
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Wednesday December 30th, minicine? will welcome back to Shreveport, Ghost to Falco, and his touring cohort, the honorable, Cornelius F. Van Stafrin III... Kaleidoscope's aside, this will be absolute ear pleasure!!! On tour and returning home to Los Angeles after an extended sojourn in North Carolina, Cornelius will be starting off with some super awesome noisy soundtrack type stuff with reel to reel tape machines and Tibetan singing bowls, amongst an array of other sound experiments... Ghost to Falco, homebased out of Portland, OR, and formerly a guitarist with Alarmist, is the signature solo project of Eric Crespo. As described in his press release, "ranging from psychedelic minimalism to complex looping arrangements"... "makes for an eerily beautiful and unsettlingly hypnotizing listening experience".... minicine? has been addicted to his music since first hearing it in the Zebra Room in 2004... Read more press!!!!
Also, also, a late addition to this event, minicine? is proud to host Shreveport native, Rob Peterson (in town for the holiday), to share art and sounds from Haiti. Rob has just returned from a three week residency at the Haiti Ghetto Biennale. On exhibit will be sculpture and wall hangings collected from artists of the Grand Rue of Port-au-Prince, including works by Claude Sentilus, Jean Herard Celeur, Guerly, Mario Guyodo, Louco and Andre Eugene. A sound environment will be induced from collected field recordings from the City of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Happy Holidays!!!
WEDNESDAY December 30 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 8pm / $5 Donation
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Joy to the worlds, the season is upon us... Friday December 11, minicine? will host an evening of art and music, complimented by visuals and edible delights (from Greenly23)... Artists on the walls include: Shannon Palmer, Nick Norwood, Jamie Heiges, Laurel Quinones, Alex Gural, Ryan Tew & Sara Hebert... Musicians include: A.J. Haynes & the Monkey Business, Jimmy Cousins & the Acetylene Brothers (with The Tetanus Boys)
Plus The Fuddies perform the "The Mysterious Aluminum Tubes".
FRIDAY December 11 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / FREE!!!!
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minicine? will cover the floors with an infinite array of carpet patches for a night of music and art. Artists on the walls will include, Jeff Morgan (Ashville, NC), Reyne Treve (Sedona, AZ), Justin Clark (Shreveport, LA), Sarabeth Dunton Diamond (New Orleans, LA) Dean Roane (Shreveport, LA), Mallori Brandon (Shreveport, LA) and Sara White (New Orleans, LA). Music will include Mr. Christopher, A.J. Haynes & the Monkey Business, Jimmy Cousins, The Infamous Jaguar Shark and, THE DRUM MILITIA.
SUNDAY November 22 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 6pm / FREE
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Monday, November 9th @ 6pm, minicine? will open it's doors to Document & Dinner.
This event will feature music performances by: Astronautalis, Giant Cloud, The Bellys, Kyle Craft, Dignan, Dead Sea Choir, and AJ Lowring!
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The opportunity to enjoy a Full Course Meal!
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The opportunity to participate, be in, or watch
The Documentation!
MONDAY November 9 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 6PM
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Heap Us 'Round Our Ruins + Jasper McAdams Friday October 16, New England filmmakers Ben Balcom and Josh Weissbach will stop at minicine? to present new film works as part of their Heap Us ‘Round Our Ruins: An Interstate Film Circuit Tour… This event will also feature a reading by Rachel Roche, of Lake Arthur, LA, from her body of work, "If I Had Wings" , and a special performance by Shreveport music artist, Jasper McAdams, on the eve of the release of his new CD, "Tender Legal"... in other words... an OFFICIAL CD RELEASE PARTY... About the films… Ben Balcom’s films teeter on the line between reality and dream, characterized by the appearance and disappearance of narrative. The form of these films change from pure experimentation to character-based allegory. These films are trying to discover the relationship between our nature and the representation of this space through a reconfiguration of experience in an artificial medium. Each is united in an interest in poetry, mythology, and perception, experienced through an interface of silence and the language of the material. This body of work is meant to be eyes seeing humanity hiding, running, lying, tearing itself apart. The conceptual premise of Josh Weissbach’s film work, all shot on Super 8 and 16mm film, is based on the notion that as all humans inhabit space, space simultaneously inhabits humans, and within this, the main question that is raised is how does the relationship between intimacy, trauma, and space function in the life of every human being? Both filmmakers differ in their approach and subject matter, but are both unified by an interest in the vitality of the moving image as an experience of communication. With that said, this 90 minute film program has been evolving nightly on the tour, trying to promote connections that speak to each other across the collections of films from these two artists... About the music... www.myspace.com/jaspermcadams New to the Shreveport music scene this year, Jasper McAdams comes to us from Texarkana, AK as a songwriter, vocalist and acoustic performer.... releasing his new CD, "Tender Legal", produced on the Portland indie label, BorrowDeer... Tracks on the CD range from the poppy "It's Alright Kids" to the unique tweaked-out folk of "Sally & the Devil" and the dreamier "Scarecrow"... Jasper will have CD's on sale... FRIDAY October 16 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 8PM / $5 
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FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS Help us celebrate Sputnik Day Weekend (to celebrate the beginning of instantaneous global communication?) … Not on your calendar? Please pencil it in… digi-log it in your phone... or burn it somewhere in your brain. Friday October 2, minicine? is proud to host touring filmmaker Roger Beebe, and local music act, The RatCatchers as a prelude to coming Halloween shenanigans'… Haunted House down the street! Seriously, next to Antioch Baptist Church... More info to follow as discovered.... About the music…. Well, what about the music... This one keeps changing so check back often... For sure... minicine? takes pleasure in introducing Shreveport’s newest pop drives, The RatCatchers, with Christian Yates, Christopher Denman, Kristen Watson and Mike Markivee… About the films… A man after our own heart, Roger Beebe, will present his touring program, FILMS for ONE to EIGHT PROJECTORS. Beebe, a filmmaker and professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Florida has screened his films around the globe including such unlikely places as McMurdo Station in Antartica and the CBS JumboTron in Times Square. And oddly, he has even been to Shreveport, and did so with us, literally in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.** minicine? gladly welcomes Roger back to a less flooded, less desperate, less debris strewn Louisiana for this screening of his newest works. And we can’t wait to help him unpack his touring vehicle, as Roger will be bringing a bevy of projectors… His new work, the result of two years of experimentation, has evolved “outta sorta a discovery” that occurred to him when he projected positive and negative prints of one of his films side-by-side for a kind of Frankensteinian cinemascope effect. This epiphany pushed him to explore the possibilities of using multiple projectors, not for a free-form VJ-type experience, but for the creation of discrete works with distinct forms. This tour is the result of the two years of experimentation that followed. This show will build from his relatively straightforward two-projector films “The Strip Mall Trilogy” and “TB TX DANCE” (both made prior to the discovery of this new direction and retooled in its wake) to his more elaborate three-projector meditation on Las Vegas, “Money Changes Everything,” and on finally to his eight-projector magnum opus “Last Light of a Dying Star.” These films are simultaneously performance films (as they will be screened with Beebe actually running the projectors— and running from projector to projector), technological demonstrations (with a parade of different modes of image making and presentation), and significant aesthetic works in their own right. 
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Jack Rose + Daniel Breithaupt & Eric Gardner + Amanda Blue
Following is how Wikipedia describes Jack Rose...
"Rose plays in no singular style. His depth of knowledge in the traditions of blues, ragtime and Eastern music are complimented by the avant-garde and experimental spirit of PELT. His compositions are mostly for the 6-string and 12-string guitar, as well as Weissenborn-style lap steel guitar. One common characteristic of Rose's music is his playing in open tunings. Open Db, Open Cm dropped down to Open Bbm for 12-string, and standard tuning dropped down one half-step are some of his more common tunings."
"He has been compared to guitarists on the Takoma label from the 1960's, including American primitive guitarist John Fahey, Robbie Basho and former Vanguard recording artist and recent touring partner Peter Walker. These artists shared his interest in experimenting with tunings, and Rose's music makes it apparent that he shares Fahey's half-joking belief that "the secret is always to steal from obscure sources." For example, his version of the traditional "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" shares much in common with Mississippi John Hurt's 1963 Library of Congress recording of the song for guitar, as well as Sam and Kirk McGee's guitar and banjo "Rock House Joe" from 1964. "Teoc," a song from Doctor Ragtime, was the first appearance of the "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" melody in Rose's music. It later appeared in "Mountaintop Lamento," a song from Opium Musick, This experimentation with a melodic theme culminated in his 2004 recording of "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord" on Raag Manifestos."
"Rose cites artists as diverse as Blind Blake, Blind Willie Johnson, William "Bill" Moore and Oscar "Buddy" Woods as influences."
SPECIAL>>>> This event is growing... Shreveport percussionist, Daniel Breithaupt, and bassist, Eric Gardner (both members of Shreveport homegrown grumble boogey fave band, DirtFoot) will open to warm or cool the room depending on the weather (and they will be checking)... and, introducing, Amanda Blue, who will take the stage, to perform a selection of her newest and most original song poems, "a capella"...
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Say Bye-Bye to the Peekers...
minicine? has been in denial on this one... Please join us to celebrate the fabulous Peekers!
The total line-up: A.J. Haynes & The Monkey Business, Midwest Caravan, Giant Cloud, The Peekers...
SUNDAY September 13 / minicine? swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 6PM / FREE
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minicine?, Thursday September 10, will fire up an array of 16mm film projectors (and a few digital ones) for a special screening to celebrate the first annual NW LA Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, presented by P.A.C.E. September 11-17, 2009 at the Robinson Film Center. So, minicine?, in what might be our most unconventional screening to date, will present a sampling of film works from the early underground (the time before the genre, from the "shadow time") including, Jean Genet's Un Chant d'Amour (1950), Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (1963), Andy Warhol's Haircut #1 (1963), and Barbara Hammer's Dyketactics (1974). And, thinking that this will just begin to wet the appetite... these early and seminal works (Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures had a profound influence on the careers of John Waters, Andy Warhol, and Federico Fellini) will be followed with a selection of contemporary shorts, including, Ryan Trecartin's Tommy Chat Just e-Mailed Me (2006), Jeanne Stern's Bellwether (2008), Ivan Lozano's Signal Noise (2008), and Nana Swiczinsky's Lezzieflick (2008).
Live music during the evening will be performed by Ian Quiet, a Shreveport based musician and performance artist who has been recording and producing music since 2000. Working cross genre, Quiet's musicial creations explore the realms of electronic, dance, electro clash, experimental, industrial and techno... Quiet has released several albums including: "Vulcan's Prayer", "Dancing God", and most recently, "Ian Quiet says... Save the Spotted Mermaid". More information about Ian Quiet Music is HERE!
Ian Quiet will be accompanied by performance artists Meredith Mighell and Megan Westbrook... Landry Debussey will calibrate a tuning fork with visual overlay. David Nelson, a.k.a. Twister, will wear a stupid hat.
Edible artistry will be provided by World Famous Lagniappe Catering including but not limited to... the likes of Mushroom Strudels, Raggedy Anne Salad, Potato Cheese Charlott, Swedish Meat Ball Kabobs, and Gingerbread Jewels... Cocktails will be available...
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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...
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darrin martin : single-channel film / video works
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!
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Phantom Orchard / Sound & Space Experiments
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...
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Craig Baldwin: Mock Up On Mu
"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)...
"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...
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Upcoming Events....
(Please check back for more information)
+ expect expanded post for each item!
March 16 - The Peekers - Release Life in the Air...
*Event includes: These United States, Lover, The High Strung....
April 18 - Craig Baldwin's 'Mock Up on Mu' aftershock layered with Artwork by Vanessa Boyd...
*Event includes: Craig Baldwin in the flesh to screen his newest film @ RFC... and afterhours blowout art opening with Vanessa Boyd....
+++++++++++++paperworks, sculpture, fashion and music...
April 25- Phantom Orchard - Zeena Parkins & Ikue Mori infusion at McNeill St. Pumping Station...
*Event includes: Soundscapes by Jon Mackey, Ian Quiet & Generic Air... the installation "remember when we were birds" by the Occidentalists... select artwork by Lacy Mayfield...
May 1 - Darrin Martin - New Works on Tour!
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CHANNELING: An Invocation of Spectral Bodies & Queer Spirits
Vanessa Renwick - 9 is a Secret (2002, 6:00, video)
Elliot Montague - Well Dressed (2006, 10:00, Super 8mm on video)
Shana Moulton - Whispering Pines #7 (2006, 5:00, video)
Michael Robinson - Carol Anne is Dead (2008, 7:30, video)
EMR (Math Bass & Dylan Mira) - Somethings Gonna Soon (2008, 4:00, video)
Aay Preston-Myint - Some Ghosts (2007, 2:00, video)
Jillian Pena - Compromise (2005, 10:00, video)
John Di Stefano - (tell me why): The Epistemology of Disco (1990, 24:00, video)
Total Running Time: ~68 min.
Doors will open at 7pm to a group art exhibit by area artists and music by DJ Ethan White and doors will stay open following the films for more music by DJ Ethan White, plus...
Random Selection: A (mini cine) from the world wide web...
bao thy [lona] - get out [mini cine]
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May
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A time for new ideas and change... Happy New Year...
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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..............
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This is a must see... November 28 & 29.... For info click HERE!
Friday, November 28 @ 9:30 p.m.
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".
Saturday, November 29 @ 9:30 p.m.
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.
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Be Sure And VOTE! Nov.4th!
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7th Annual Gadabout Traveling Film Festival
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X-Mas Under the Ground....
Call for Submittals:
Submit a short film for minicine?'s bi-annual, local, film and "DVD" showcase... X-Mas Under the Ground...
To be held Saturday, December 13th... All submittals must be under 5 minutes and delivered, mailed, or somehow to us by absolutely no later than the Submittal DEADLINE: Monday December 1st...
This will leave approximately a lucky 13 days to review, curate and publicize the program...... and we want to include your work... If you have special format needs... 8mm, 9.5, 16, 35, VHS, Digital? Praxinoscope? let us know, we might surprise you....
Music, art and other info to follow soon... For immediate questions please contact: minicine (at) swampland (dot) org
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Read reviews from New Orleans premiere!
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.
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The Peekers Present: Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps + Ty Segall (Autumnal Equinox)
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)."
WEDNESDAY September 24 / minicine?/Swampland / 846 Texas Avenue / 7PM / $5 Donation
It's a boy.....
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Rural Route Film Festival
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 !
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Nueva Lascaux Noche del Arte!
TUESDAY August 12 / Lee Hardware Gallery / 719 Edwards Street @ Cotton Street / 7PM-10PM / $5 Donation
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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
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Blood and Oil
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
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