Film Series 2004
minicine?
824 Texas Avenue
Shreveport, LA 71101
HAPPY NEW YEAR! -Make Movies Now!
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Saturday DECEMBER 4
X-MAS Under the Ground
minicine? is proud to host its 8th annual Local Film and Video Showcase featuring new short film and video works by area and regional artists and filmmakers. Throughout the year minicine? host cinema events which highlight new work by national and international film artists but, "This show is always a great chance to see samples of what is being produced in our hometown and is always one of the most fun."-David Nelson, minicine?... All selections are under ten minutes in length with the shortest being one minute. The work ranges from narrative fiction and animation to experimental. Formats range from Super 8 and 16mm to new digital technologies... Shreveport entrants include: Morgan Thomas and Allison Dickson; Jett, Madeline and Robert Trudeau; Evan Falbaum, Hunter Carter and Danny Lachman; Chuck Loridans, Landry Debussey, Katherine Pabody, Chris Jay, Jen Wasson, Dusty Emerson, Jason Bass, Dan Garner and more. Also in this show will be several of the best single short submissions we have received throughout the year, including: Neil Needleman (Katonah,NY) and, Brian Farrelly and Jay Barba (Brooklyn) who have provided an irreverent Christmas spoof just for the event. In addition to this screening local artist Allison Dickson has orchestrated and curated an exhibit of "Mail Art" solicited and mailed in from a range of local artists. Ambient music will be provided by Jon Mackey and edibles by local food artist Libby Patterson... This screening will be held at Messinger Picture Studio, 1505 Marshall Street, Shreveport. Doors will open at 8PM and admission is free. Make Movies Now!
Messinger Picture Studio / Saturday DECEMBER 4 / 1505 Marshall St. / 8PM / FREE
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NOVEMBER 12-13
Louisiana Film Fest 2004 - Student Division K thru 12th grade
This years festival will feature, Alice Elliott, the director of The Collector of Bedford Street which is an award-winning documentary short; it was nominated for an academy award in 2002. Elliott will screen her academy award nominated documentary and offer a workshop for interested students.
About Ms Elliott's film: The Collector of Bedford Street is a short documentary that follows Larry Selman, the filmmaker's 60 year old neighbor. A community activist and fundraiser with developmental disabilities, Larry raises thousands of dollars for charity every year while he lives at the poverty level. Because of Larry's 20 years of service to his neighborhood, the community created a supplemental need adult trust fund for him. This was the first time that a group, rather than an individual's family did this. The film humanizes the story behind the abstract statistics of mental retardation, revealing how a community builds tolerance and understanding.
The Louisiana Film Festival, November 12 - 13, 2004 will take place at the Centenary College Campus, in Shreveport, Louisiana. Film submittals from K - 12th grade invited. For further information go to the festival site: http://www.lafilmfest.org/
Red River Film Society / NOVEMBER 12-13 / Centenary College Campus
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Home Show / Sunday OCTOBER 17 / 941 Captain Shreve Drive / 7PM / Free
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Saturday SEPTEMBER 25
The Gadabout Traveling Film Festival is coming back to Shreveport and has grown even more! This year they will be touring with live music by hyper-pop favorites, The Kiss Ups (www.thekissups.com), a stencil art show, a zine distro, and a book tour by their friend Jacinta Bunnell, (Girls Will Be Boys Will Be Girls Will Be... and the, Girls Are Not Chicks, coloring books.) For some dates this year they will include a program facilitating people of all ages to make their own films, art, zines, etc. (which we hope happens at our date)... So basically, they are growing into a total indie-media extravaganza!
On the walls... Skip-Go Collective will present new artwork by area talents including: Bobby Dunn, Katie Howell, Ruth Junto, Julie Kern, Shannon Palmer, Rob Peterson, and Joanna Taegert... Doors to gallery open from 6-10PM, music from 6-8PM... films roll at 8PM Saturday... Gallery also open 12-4PM Sunday...
minicine? / Saturday SEPTEMBER 25 / Lee Hardware Gallery / 8PM / FREE
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Saturday AUGUST 14
Best of Aurora Picture Show, Volumn II
minicine? welcomes back Andrea Grover of Aurora Picture Show, Houston, to screen Best of Aurora Picture Show, Volumn II. This program is part of the biannual Best of Aurora series which travels around the US.
The Best of Aurora Picture Show, Volume 2 features short works (under 15 minutes) by film and video artists from the U.S., Argentina, Canada, England, and Germany. "The titles in the program are by no means representative of the only best works weve shown at Aurora, but rather a sampling of some recent titles that rocked the house".
Aurora Picture Show is an internationally recognized non-profit microcinema located in the Heights of Houston, TX. Established in 1998, Aurora presents work by non-commercial film, video, and new media artists. Housed in a renovated 1924 church building, Aurora promotes a meaningful and community-oriented exchange between media artists and audiences. For more information about Aurora please see: Aurora Picture Show
On the walls... Skip-Go presents artworks by area talents Shannon Palmer, Katie Howell, Robert Peterson, Ruth Junto, Joanna Taegert, Johnna Crider and more.... Live Ambient Sounds by JB23... Doors to gallery open from 6-10PM, music from 6-8PM Saturday... Gallery open also 12-4PM Sunday...
minicine? / Saturday AUGUST 14 / Lee Hardware Gallery / 8PM / FREE
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Friday AUGUST 6
Little Cosmo
Centenary College / Friday August 6 / Kilpatrick Auditorium / 8PM / FREE
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Friday JUNE 25
Fahrenheit 9/11
One of the most controversial and provocative films of the year, Fahrenheit 9/11 is Academy Award-winning filmmaker Michael Moore's searing examination of the Bush administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events of 9/11. With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering the facts, Moore considers the presidency of George W. Bush and where it has led us. He looks at how - and why - Bush and his inner circle avoided pursuing the Saudi connection to 9/11, despite the fact that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudis and Saudi money had funded Al Qaeda. Fahrenheit 9/11 shows us a nation kept in constant fear by FBI alerts and lulled into accepting a piece of legislation, the USA Patriot Act, that infringes on basic civil rights. It is in this atmosphere of confusion, suspicion and dread that the Bush Administration makes its headlong rush towards war in Iraq - and Fahrenheit 9/11 takes us inside that war to tell the stories we haven't heard, illustrating the awful human cost to U.S. soldiers and their families. Lions Gate Films will release the film nationwide on June 25th. For more info on the film: Fahrenheit 9/11
Tinsel Town / Opens Friday June 25 / Shreveport, LA / Call for times.... / Very FREE
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Friday JUNE 18
Blows Against the Empire
Craig Baldwin returns to Shreveport to screen his election primer, Blows Against the Empire. In the few years since the Seatlle WTO protests, and especially now in the weeks leading up to the sure-to-be-contentious streets of NYC for the Republican National Convention, Americans are certainly witnessing a radical surge in types and varieties of protest and street demonstration. Whole new modes of dissent have emerged--more visual, more gestural, more interactive, and much more humor-based than the tame and unimaginative democratic-centralist manifestations of the Eighties. These tactical interventions, call them "political pranks, are perhaps the result of a generation's increasingly intense need to break out of the Coast-to-Coast corporate numbing of the popular will, as well as the very healthy growth of the anarchist and direct-action wings of the American Left.
This new breed of activism has been the subject of many recent articles, books, conferences, and even college class offerings, as well as, of course, ambitious interdisciplinary exhibition initiatives from within the fine-art world. This explosion of creativity and dialogue affords a unique opportunity to appreciate the contemporary guerrilla theater against the histories of both agit-prop AND performance art (among many other cultural studies), and so it is that this 2-hour video project rolls into town to both inspire and inaugurate" this Summer Season of Protest.
This program is grouped into two halves--"NO LOGO", on exorcising the global bane of corporate mind-share and "HOW TO POKE A WAR-PIG", a bracing survey of brave and brainy anti-war actions and images. Among the two-dozen smart-bombs of art are pieces by the Yes Men, Rev. Billy Talen, Bryan Boyce, Animal Charm, Paper Tiger TV, Whispered Media, Billboard Liberation Front, WhirlMart, Critical Mass, and the Institute of Applied Autonomy.
Mr. Baldwin, director of "Sonic Outlaws" and "Spectres of the Spectrum"--two earlier critiques of corporate hegemony, will be on hand to introduce the work and answer any questions. Local DJ 451 (aka.. Benjamin Brock) and DJ Carter will sweeten the evening with sounds and Nathan Brown (Fort Worth, TX) will make a special guest appearance to "cheer" us all up after the films. And on the walls... will be artwork from the Northwest Louisiana Art Gallery, featuring: Stan Carpenter, John F. Daniel, Eric Dean, Alan Dyson, Noma Fowler-Sandlin, Micah Harold, Michael Harold, Neil Johnson, Shannon Palmer, Derek Sallis, Lisa Smith, Leland Strebeck, Jen Wasson, Sizer Yerger, and others.
minicine? / Friday JUNE 18 / Shreveport, LA / 8PM / FREE
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Saturday MAY 22
CinemaTexas Roadshow: High Above This Wall
minicine? presents CinemaTexas Roadshow: High Above This Wall. Executive Director of CinemaTexas, Ralph McKay, will be present to screen and discuss the six international short films in this program. To enter the CinemaTexas Ninth International Short Film Fest (Deadline: May 21st, Late Deadline: June 4th) go to: http://www.cinematexas.org
High Above This Wall - "They call Texas the Lone Star state. And lately some Texans have in fact been acting like lone stars at the center of the universe: behaving as if their law is mightiest, existing apart from any other galaxy. But Cinematexas doesn't accept this cosmology. We've seen some astonishing work these last few years -- work from all countries, in all genres -- work that reflects the inner and outer landscapes of battle, the social and emotional architectures of war. We want to share this work with our worldwide community -- artists, filmmakers, curators, outsiders -- because we know that stars are not singular, that it is always the conversation that matters most."
Rose Remontant - And in the gallery, Interventions on Texas Avenue, from an advanced design studio at the University of Texas, Austin, presents seven bold proposals for an abandoned building in downtown Shreveport at the Texas Trailhead. A semester long undertaking, this exhibit explores urban and programming initiatives and proposes very intriguing and unique possibilities for the neglected and under-realized Texas Avenue Corridor. Co-Sponsored by Shreveport's Downtown Development Authority and dna-studio.us, and Austin's, University of Texas Professor, Pankaj Gupta.
Ghost to Falco, from Portland, OR, will be playing electric guitar w/ loops+singing words+playing analog synthesizer+using all kinds of samples and voices+various other things to make noisy/loud/sparse/quiet/dense/sad/sci-fi/layered/epic/pretty music(songs).
minicine? / Saturday MAY 22 / Shreveport, LA / 8PM / FREE
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Friday APRIL 23
A Day in the Hype of America
minicine? presents A Day in the Hype of America as part of the Global Griot Productions Believe Freedom The American Hype Campaign during TV Turnoff Week, April 19th 25th.
The campaign, taking place in 20 different cities, aims to deconstruct the paradox of democratic media through screenings and discussions of their feature length documentary film, A Day in the Hype of America. Co-director Brian Quist believes the impact of the film during the TV Turnoff Week will have people questioning how media influences their ideas and perceptions of truth. Despite so much evidence of medias corporate ownership, there seems to be an overwhelming willingness in the American psyche to continue believing what we see on television, Quist said. Its not because of laziness, but because we have known no other way.
Filmed entirely on December 31, 1999, A Day in the Hype of America offers a savvy critique of the hype and hysteria surrounding the arrival of the millennium that made the arrival such an anticlimax. Focusing on four Americans experiences, the film is set against the noise of the media circus and the drama of the dreaded hour of midnight. For T.J. Martin, the other co-director, this is an opportunity to delve into the heart of consumerism and the American medias ability to sell its audience on advice and products. Our news sources have provided the American populace with the perception that media and free speech have been democratized, creating a naïve rapport between the people and the television, Martin said. Its scary when information becomes a marketing tool.
The Seattle-based team, Global Griot Productions, debuted their film last year at the Rhode Island International Film Festival and won for best documentary.
Centenary Professors of Communication and Visual Culture, Michelle Glaros and Mike Laffey, will be present for discussion following this film. Artwork by Melissa Bonin in Bistineau Gallery. Artwork by Kristi Hanna in Mother's Gallery. Make Movies Now!
A Visual Sound & Movement Co / Friday APRIL 23 / 327 Market / 8PM / FREE
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Friday MARCH 19
The Films of Diane Bonder
Diane Bonder has been making lo-fi experimental film and video for 10 years. Shooting super-8 and 16mm in documentary, poetic and semi-narrative styles, she explores autobiographical content, addressing issues of identity, sexuality, addiction, memory, and loss. Her work has been screened internationally at museums, alternative cinemas, festivals and libraries. She lives and works in Brooklyn NY.
"Since her start in the early 90's Bonder has developed a way to combine various moving-image media and composition strategies (e.g. super-8, 16mm and video shooting in documentary, diary, poetic and semi-narrative styles, along with found-footage and optical printing construction) which enables her to explore, with humor and intelligence, personal and social issues, especially those relating to family and gender identity." - Berks Filmmakers
"The allusive way in which Bonder's compelling images relate to the text forms a playful experimental, and engaging esthetic. - Alissa Lebow, Cineaste
Centenary Film Society / Friday MARCH 19 / Mickle Hall / 7PM / Free
FEBRUARY ZEBRA ROOM
February 8 - IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES + Pretend King
February 20 - io + Mouthbreather + crackfight + Collapsar
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JANUARY SMANUARY
January 2 - SHREVEPUNX.... in the basement
The Charismatics, Zack the Rookie, Sunday Mass Murder
ONO!NINJAS, Flappy Jak Kids
January 5 - BROWN OUT
Truck Stop Still Lifes (Three Films by Bill Brown)
Roadside Attractions (Eleven Photos by Chris Brown)
January 12 - TUNGSTEN74 + Cherry Blossom + Red Shift.... in the basement
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Monday JANUARY 5
Truck Stop Still Lifes
minicine? host film artist Bill Brown, Lubbuck, TX, to screen Truck Stop Still Lifes. This program, which he is currently touring around the US, includes 3 short films about the New World that weren't exactly shot from the window of a moving car, but that's the idea.
"Mountain State" 20min 2003
A brief history of the westward expansion of the United States as told by 25 roadside historical markers in the state of West Virginia.
"Buffalo Common" 20min 2001
A portrait of the prairies of North Dakota as the state loses its Cold War arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as its aging population of Scandinavian farmers.
"Confederation Park" 30min 1999
A travel diary from Canada. Francophones, Anglophones, and Allophones duke it out over what it means to be a Canadian, and whether, in the end, it even matters.
Bill is from Lubbock, Texas, hometown of Buddy Holly, as well as John Hinkley, jr., the failed assassin of former US President Ronald Reagan. Lately, Bill has been shooting film while following the US/Mexico border. When Bill is not on the road he is teaching film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
+ Roadside Attractions Eleven Photos by Chris Brown... see rock city....
minicine? / Monday JANUARY 5 / 824 Texas Ave. / 8PM / FREE
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