Film Series 2003
minicine?
824 Texas Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71101
Wednesday NOVEMBER 19
LIMINAL LUMEN: A FILM PERFORMANCE BY LUIS RECODER
minicine? host film artist Luis Recoder, San Francisco, in a live 16mm film performance in which he uses multiple film projectors played like instruments to create visual and aural compositions.
"Working without a camera, Recoder fogs the film in a variety of ways, producing subtly shifting light patterns whose soft edges subvert the standard geometries of the most abstract imagery. With their slow shifts and absence of overt rhythmic organization, these pieces invite a focused response to pure color in a manner that calls to mind John Cage's proposed definition of art: "paying attention. Whitney Museum curator Chrissie Iles is correct in comparing Recoder's films to the work of light sculptor James Turrell: both artists use light to explore the boundaries between the palpable and the insubstantial" --Fred Camper, Chicago Reader
Luis Recoder's work screened this year at the Whitney Biennial.
AFTER HOURS: Rise, Rise, Rise Tour 2003 w/ Tyondai Braxton and Parts&Labor
minicine? / Wednesday NOVEMBER 19 / 824 Texas Ave. / 8PM / $5
Monday OCTOBER 27
My Kingdom for a Lullaby
In an ambitious collaboration between video artists and musicians, My Kingdom for a Lullaby engages feedback, various sound spectrums and a live performance of 'visual music', translated into digital images in a wide range of audiovisual forms
What comes first, the chicken or the egg
Pre-prepared video material visually generated from basic sounds of instruments is combined live with newly produced image material, which in its turn drives the music. This is truly live experiment
My Kingdom for a Lullaby is created and performed by video artists: Michaela Grill and Billy Roisz; and musicians: Christof Kurzmann (G3, clarinet, theremin) and Martin Siewert (guitar, lapsteel, electronics); of Vienna. This program will be held in the new Feazel Instrumental Hall on the Centenary College Campus and is sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum- NYC, The Red River Film Society, The Centenary Film Society and minicine?
minicine? / Mon. OCT. 27 / Feazel Instrumental Hall / 7PM / Free
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Tuesday, OCTOBER 7
The Weather Underground
The Weather Underground by Sam Green and Bill Siegel, documents the rise and fall of the 1960's student radicals (AKA:The Weathermen) who wanted to take down The Man by "bringing the Vietman War home"................
Directors Statement... "This documentary tells the story of the rise and fall of the Weather Underground, a controversial group of idealistic young people who, outraged by the war in Vietnam and racism in America, tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government during the 60s and 70s. Presenting a balanced and meticulously researched portrait of the Weather Underground, this film will in no way endorse or glamorize violence, but instead will encourage viewers and especially younger viewers to think critically and to responsibly engage in the pressing issues of our time...."
Sam Green will be present to introduce and answer questions about this film.
Centenary Film Society / Tuesday OCT. 7 / Mickle Hall / 7PM / FREE
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Tuesday, SEPTEMBER 9
Help Build the RRAFT!
The Red River Film Society is throwing a bash for the public to announce the commencement of the "Capital Campaign" for the new Red River Art Film Theatre (RRAFT). This new theater will be located at 617-619 Texas Street in downtown Shreveport and will screen new film and media works not available in any other cinema venue in town. Come find out more about this exciting new venue for Shreveport and pick up a pledge card to support this project....
The HAVANA / Tuesday SEPTEMBER 9 / 118 Texas St. / 7PM / $25
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Monday, SEPTEMBER 8
A Documentary From Two Birds Film
Filmmaker, Laura Dunn, founder and Executive Director of Two Birds Film and the Center for Ecological Media in Austin, TX will be present at Centenary College to screen her controversial documentary GREEN. This co-presentation by minicine? and the Centenary Film Society will be held on campus in Room 304, Jackson Hall at 7PM Monday September 8. Ms. Dunn will be present to introduce and discuss the film.
About GREEN: In the 100 miles between Baton Rouge and New Orleans there are over 150 petrochemical plants which are responsible for producing 25% of the nation's petrochemicals. This area reports the highest concentration of toxic emissions to the air, land and water in the country. The residents of this area, who are mainly African American and poor, suffer from astronomical rates of cancer, asthma and other medical ailments. GREEN documents this environmental injustice: the disproportionate toxic development in areas populated by minorities and low income groups. The film journeys through six communities, showing how one group of people may be bearing the burden for a nation's consumerism.
Centenary Film Society / Monday SEPT. 8 / Rm.304 Jackson Hall / 7PM / FREE
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Wednesday, AUGUST 27
Lock Up Your Sons & Daughters
Vancouver curator Bill Taylor presents a truly astounding and rare collection of oddities from a long history of anti-gay educational films. Titles include Red Light/Green Light, Soapy The Germ Fighter, Perversion for Profit, The Report: The Gay Agenda, and The Heterosexual Agenda (spoof).
Bill Taylor started his curating and archiving in Vancouver in 1996. First starting out at Out On Screen, Vancouver's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, he began curating successful programs such as Farmers Daughters, Small Town Boys, and Other Queers in the Bushes which dealt with rural queer life, and the sold out program Directors For A New Millenium which showcased new directors from around the world that were leading the way into the (what was then) new century. He took a 'sabbatical' from Out On Screen to focus on independent curated projects. His first program, I Sold My Soul On Ebay, was a cornucopia of 16mm oddities delved from the online auction house. His current show, Lock Up Your Sons And Daughters premiered in Vancouver in August 2002, and is currently touring festivals worldwide.
minicine? / Wednesday AUGUST 27 / 941 Captain Shreve Drive / 9PM / $5
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Mark Klocko 1961
"Art is Medicine"
An exhibition of paintings & drawings....
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Written by Michael Staniford - Tulsa, OK - 1977
(Of Beans & Bondage)
(The Incredible Bulk)
minicine? / Saturday AUGUST 2 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / FREE
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Sunday, JULY 6
The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival
Once again, The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival rolls into Shreveport, this time on their national indie-film Summer Tour 2003. This group, based in upstate New York, has had a call for entries out for the last year to attract promising new film shorts to take on the road. This time around, they are extremely excited to be representing filmmakers from all over the country, and the world (India, Singapore, Australia, Argentina, Isreal, and the U.K.). Independent in every sense, these films share the same willingness to challenge the conventions set for commercial filmmaking. This is filmmaking as an artform.
Appearing in over 30 cities from coast to coast in 6 weeks, the Fest has expanded and created more of an independent media event which will include along with films, live music from indie art rockers, the Macaulay Culprits, a small art show and a zine distro.
minicine? / Sunday JULY 6 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5
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And in mid to late APRIL... like around the 21st...
The Projet Mobilivre - BookMobile Project is coming to Shreveport. This is a touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications. Their mission is to improve exposure for self-made bookworks, and to encourage artistic production through bookbinding workshops and informal dialogue. The BookMobile travels across the US and Canada in a vintage Airstream trailer, visiting a variety of communities. They seek to strengthen pre-existing networks and inspire new connections between artists, writers, and those concerned with the survival of independent media.
On the Walls:Paintings by Shannon Palmer
For your Ears:Music by Chris Alexander & Friends
minicine? / Monday APRIL 21 / 824 Texas Avenue / 7PM - Midnight / FREE
The Bookmobile will be at the Columbia Cafe Noon til 7PM... Tuesday APRIL 22
To learn more about Projet Mobilivre - Bookmobile Project: www.mobilivre.org
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Thursday, APRIL 17
Men and Animals: The Films of Jim Finn and Dean Rank
Jim Finn's films have screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Impakt in the Netherlands, Museo Tamayo in Mexico City, Cinematexas in Austin and the L.A. Freewaves Festival. His film comunista! was featured on the PBS show EGG the Arts in November 2001 and el güero was chosen to take part in the touring 2002 European VideoGallery. Snow and Farm, a photo from a series using miniature models and Prozac pills appeared in the January 2000 issue of Harper's. He is currently planning a US tour of his work for the spring.
"Jim Finn now lives in Chicago making films and videos about the struggle of capitalism, communism, history and love and are sort of odd, quirky and charming." Videoart Center Tokyo
Dean Rank studied film and video at the University of Illinois Chicago. His work has been screened at the Thaw Film Festival in Iowa City, the Aurora Picture Show in Houston, Blinding Light in Vancouver, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and the Butcher Shop Gallery in Chicago. His last project was an experimental music video for the band Shipping News, which screened at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio. He is currently in Chicago editing his short film opus, Team.
minicine? / Thursday APRIL 17 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5
@ Arts in the Edge Saturday March 15,22,29
STOREFRONT CINEMA
At this years Arts in the Edge, minicine? presents a weekly sampling of its yearlong monthly programming with three distinct and relevant programs of experimental and independent film. Located at 615 Texas Street, minicine? will animate an abandoned storefront with three monitors and the following film and video programs:
March 15 - TRUTH SEEKERS - A series of films that explore the search for understanding, whether of war, hunting or the nature of community. This is a program curated by Ariella Ben-Dov of the MadCat Women's International Film Festival.
March 22 - CINE SHREVEPORT - A series of films from the minicine? archives by Shreveport and regional film and video artists. This program is curated by David Nelson of minicine?
March 29 - ZOO - A series of short film and video from around the world that examines the architecture of power structures on individuals be they based in gender codes, nationality, language, music, technology or a shared film and T.V. culture. This program is curated by Caz McIntee, an artist and curator originally from Scotland, currently based at the CCA in Kitakyushu, Japan.
minicine? supports Arts in the Edge and recommends all attend from 7 to midnight every Saturday evening.... FREE See the above and also attend minicine? regular and sometime simultaneous programs listed below.... For more information contact: minicine@swampland.org
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Sunday, MARCH 23
Peripheral Produce Extravaganza
Peripheral Produces Matt McCormick, Portland, is returning to Shreveport for a special screening of his experimental short film and video works. Matt's films combine found and original sounds and images to fashion abstract and witty observations of contemporary culture, and while they differ greatly in form and structure, they maintain a consistent reactionary sense to place and environment. His film "The Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal", an experimental documentary, is a keen observation of how the process of destroying one art unwittingly creates another, while "The Vyrotonin Decision" is a found footage disaster spoof created with scraps of 16mm television clips from the early 70's. "Sincerely, Joe P Bear"- a sad love-letter from a heartbroken polar bear, combines found footage with an original score and voice over, while the abstract "Going to the Ocean" contextualizes both image and sound with layers of static and noise.
Matt's films have received high praise and awards from various film festivals, including "best-of" awards at festivals such as The San Francisco International, The New York Underground, The Chicago Underground, Ann Arbor, and several others. His work has also screened at such venues as the Sundance Film Festival, South X SouthWest, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Hirshorn Art Museum, The Lincoln Center, and numerous other locations. In addition to making and screening his own films, Matt operates an independent screening and distribution project known as Peripheral Produce, which offers roving, site specific experimental film screening events, and the international distribution of over forty artist's work on video tape. He is also the founder and director of the Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, an annual exposition of film and video stuck between the margins of the art world and mainstream cinema.
minicine? / Sunday MARCH 23 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5
Saturday, MARCH 15 ....walk over from Arts in the Edge
One Million Years is Three Seconds
minicine? and the Centernary Art Department co-host photographers John Shimon and Julie Lindemann of Manitowoc, Wisconsin to screen their new 16mm documentary, One Million Years is Three Seconds. Focusing on four obscure Wisconsin artists over the age of 77, this film explores creativity, isolation, the physical manifestations of aging, the abstraction of time and the human need to pass on knowledge.
John Shimon and Julie Lindemann are Rea Fox Visiting Professors at Centenary College for the Spring 2003. The Centenary Art Department will open an exhibit of their photographic work at the Turner Art Center Febuary 22 from 6-8PM including a gallery talk by the guest photographers at 7PM.
About the exhibit: One Million Years is Three Seconds - With traditional processes and equipment, Shimon and Lindemann show how people negotiate the space immediately around them. They become storytellers not only of their often socially marginal sitter's lives, but also of portraiture and photography itself. Their portraits are regularly featured in the New York Times Magazine.
You may view and read about their work at: www.shimonlindemann.com.
....and on the walls, Straight Outta Potchcaw - Artwork by Leland!
minicine? / Saturday MARCH 15 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / FREE
Friday, FEBRUARY 21
LOST AND FOUND: The Films of Jay Rosenblatt
Jay Rosenblatt has been making films since 1980. He is a recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship. His films have won many awards and have screened throughout the world. These films explore our emotional and psychological cores. They are personal in their content yet universal in their appeal.
A recent film, Nine Lives (The Eternal Moment of Now) was screened at Sundance and won the Best Short Short Award at the Aspen Shortsfest. King of the Jews, was also screened at Sundance and recently won the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival. Human Remains won an award at the Sundance Film Festival and has thus far gone on to win 26 awards.
The Smell of Burning Ants won Grand Prize at the 1995 Hamburg International Short Film Festival and went on to win 22 additional awards. It has shown at the Locarno International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Tampere Film Festival and the London Film Festival among others. Short Of Breath has been shown at the Rotterdam Film Festival, Sundance and New Directors/New Films. Jay has screened these films for one-week theatrical runs at the Film Forum in New York and at theaters in San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle and Boston.
Jay is originally from New York and has lived in San Francisco for many years. He has been a film and video production instructor since 1989 at various film schools in the Bay Area, including Stanford University, S.F. State University, S.F. Art Institute and the College of San Mateo. He has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and, in a former life, worked as a therapist.
To learn more about the films of Jay Rosenblatt go to: www.jayrosenblattfilms.com
minicine? / Friday FEBRUARY 21 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5
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Friday, JANUARY 17
POLYESTER PRINCE ROAD SHOW 2002/2003
(aka: The Super Super 8 World Tour)
The SUPER SUPER 8 FILM FESTIVAL is back and has joined forces with the POLYESTER PRINCE ROAD SHOW to proudly present the 2003 World Tour of Super 8 Films. What began as an experiment has now gained critical mass and become a revolutionary movement of sorts. This program brings together an international group of filmmakers and film enthusiasts who are committed to keeping the beauty of Super 8 filmmaking alive and well. Super 8 filmmaking is again on the road with all its glory and splendor.
This screening will incorporate live musical accompaniment (*) for certain films. Bingo will be played throughout the evening and glorious prizes given away. Watching movies has never been so much fun.
1) TINY PLANET Jojo Hilsenrad - 5:00 minutes (Jackson, WY)
2) THE CHAD LAWLER STORY Mike Ott 10:00 minutes (Los Angeles, CA)
3) *DIRECTORS CUT Matt Hulse 3:00 minutes (Glasgow, Scotland)
4) COWBOY Vanessa Micale 4:00 minutes (San Francisco, CA)
5) WHY Jason Harris 3 minutes (Arleta, CA)
6) *MJAMJAM David Pfluger 3:00 minutes (Basel, Switzerland)
7) COLORFUL TRAIN IN AUTUMN Shinji Kitagawa 12 minutes (Tokyo, Japan)
8) JOES IN LOVE Satoshi Shimizu 8 minutes (Kobe, Japan)
9) WAGARA KA GARA Yosuke Kodani 6 minutes (Yokohama, Japan)
10) SUPER 8 HEROES Echo Park Kids 5 minutes (Los Angeles, CA)
11) *PICININ Paolo Davanzo - 6 minutes (Los Angeles, CA)
Music after the screening by Ian Quiet + Dirt Foot
minicine? / Friday JANUARY 17 / 824 Texas Avenue / 9PM / $5
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And in the Zebra Room this Fall & Winter...
Nov.22 FlappyJakKids + ONO!NINJAS + The Nap + The Charismatics
Nov.25 The Tah-Dahs + Calvin Johnson + LittleWings
Dec.02 RedShift + Tungsten74
Dec.07 DirtFoot + The Epoxies
Dec.30 Davey Jones + M.A.Dinkins + LoVid
Jan.11 Assasin Bug + Devendra Banhart + Entrance
Jan.22 ONO!NINJAS + Zack the Rookie + Kissing Chaos
Feb.16 DirtFoot + Lost Sounds
Time to renovate....
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