Stereo Sound and Vision
April 24th, 2010 8:30pm, $7.77
ATA Gallery, 992 Valencia (@ 21st), San Francisco

A night of independent stereoscopic productions, featuring several innovative alternative stereoscopic techniques plus live music.

Kerry Laitala & Eats Tapes + Pad Mclaughlin + Hologlypihcs

Kerry Laitala, maker behind The Muse of Cinema brings an extraordinary new dimension to our microcinema screen...that is, of DEPTH! This true Frisco original has seized upon a retinal quirk, the ChromaDepth Effect, and gleefully exploited the phenomenon with a delirious dose of Kodachrome. This stereoscopic spectacular is accompanied by the electronic hues of phonic faves Eats Tapes. Preceding the Chromatic Cocktail serving is the high craft of 3-D vets Pad McLaughlin and Bob Bloomberg, with Pad's own debut Strata, Bob's Day of the Dead ethnographic, and a 3-wall in-depth immersion! In the Landing Area, Hologlyphics will be showing Stereoscopic video synthesis without 3D glasses, along to live music. Infinite views are available from multiple perspectives. All Hologlyphic imagery is generated in real-time and interactive.

http://www.othercinema.com

http://www.hologlyphics.com

Close-Up: Under/Over - Part 3/3
Tuesday April 27th, Time: 8pm, Doors open at 7.45pm
Venue: The Working Men’s Club, 44-46 Pollard Row, London E2 6NB
Ticket: £5/£3 to Close-Up members
Presented by Close-Up and Transidency

This season of films have been curated in conjunction with the Artist’s collective, Transidency, whose latest show entitled Under/Over runs at the FOLD Gallery during April 2010.

The programme aims to complement the themes investigated in Under/Over, as well as to draw out the comparisons between the films themselves which collectively act as a body of enquiry into those same themes which include; [self & enforced] mythologising, ridiculous labour, over work/under work and the in-between, an ongoing investigation into the deceptive quality of the Earth’s iconography and the spaces of war.

Bas Jan Ader film and video works: - Fall 1 (1970, 1 min) - Fall 2 (1970, 1 min) - I’m Too Sad To Tell You (1971, 3'34 mins) - Broken Fall [geometric] (1971, 1'49 min) - Broken Fall [organic] (1971, 1'44 min) - Nightfall (1971, 4 mins) - Primary Time (1974, 25'48 mins)

Here Is Always Somewhere Else - The Disapearance Of Bas Jan Ader Rene Daalder US, 2008, 78 mins, Colour, DV

Critically acclaimed documentary about enigmatic Dutch/Californian artist Bas Jan Ader (1942-1975), whose daring conceptual performances culminated in his mysterious disappearance at sea. As recounted through the eyes of fellow emigrant Rene Daalder, Ader’s story becomes a sweeping overview of contemporary art as well as an epic saga of the transformative powers of the ocean. Featuring work from artists Tacita Dean, Rodney Graham, Marcel Broodthaers, Ger van Elk, Charles Ray, Wim T. Schippers, Chris Burden, Fiona Tan, Pipilotti Rist

For more information visit: http://www.hereisalwayssomewhereelse.com

Cinema Project: Screaming City - West Berlin 1980s
Beyond Borders Program VIII: Germany
April 20 & 21, 6:45pm
Clinton Street Theatre
2522 SE Clinton St., Portland, Oregon 97202, USA
Suggested donation of $7 ($3 for members).

For this two-night event, Cinema Project welcomes curator Stefanie Schulte Strathaus of Berlin’s Arsenal. Stefanie has toured extensively with many of these films and will be on hand to present the work each night.

On Tuesday April 20th is a selection of shorts including a-b-city by Brigitte Bühler and Dieter Hormel that features a psychedelic West Berlin pumped with the music of Pere Ubu and Einstürzende Neubauten, and Cynthia Beatt's Cycling the Frame, with a young Tilda Swinton who mumbles, "This is completely mad, this place," while cycling along the Wall.

On Wednesday April 21st is the feature length Flug durch die Nacht, by Ilona Baltrusch, which shows a highly staged West Berlin embedded in the apocalyptic atmosphere typical of the 1980s.  

In the decade before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a vast number of films were produced in and about West Berlin, dealing with the ambivalent realities of the enclosed city. No longer was it about devoting oneself to the World Revolution, but rather about implementing alternative life-styles, which gave rise to social resistance, strident underground cultures, and sexual border-crossing. For many young filmmakers, the super-8 medium facilitated the production of low cost and truly independent films. The technical limitations tended to embody a strong means of spontaneity and purposeful dilettantism, while being easily distributed and shown in underground cinemas, clubs, and cafes. Curator Stefanie Schulte-Strathaus of Berlin’s Arsenal brings with her to Portland a selection of experimental films from this dynamic and complex period of our recent past.

Curator-in-Attendance

Tuesday April 20th
- Normalzustand (Yana Yo, 1981, S8mm to video, color, sound, 3 min.)
- Musterhaft–das Ende, ein Intermezzo (Michael Brynntrup, 1985, S8mm to video, color, sound, 8 min.)
- Darum oder was erwartest Du? (Jürgen Baldiga , 1981, S8mm  to video, color, silent, 7 min.)
- Persona Non Grata (Christoph Doering, 1981, S8mm to video, color, sound, 16 min.)
- a-b-city (Brigitte Bühler & Dieter Hormel, 1985, S8mm  to video, color, sound, 8 min.)
- Cycling the Frame (Cynthia Beatt, 1988, 16mm, color, sound, 28 min.)
- Naturkatastrophenkonzert (Die Tödliche Doris, 1983, S8mm to video, color, sound, 3 min.)

Wednesday April 21st
- Flug durch die Nacht (Ilona Baltrusch, 1980, video, color, sound, 90 min.)