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Saturday 17th of October, 1998

FREE MAN / WOLNY CZLOWIEK
1988 Dir. Jozef Klyk.Poland 16mm color 90 min.

Part three of the kielbasa western trilogy, Lawless Trail, shot in Silesia. Our hero killed so many bad guys in Texas, that he had to return to Silesia to kill nazis.

 

Experimental shorts from the US and Italy

 

WRITING IN THE DARK
1998.Video. B/W & Color. Director Joseph Cafferelli. Chicago. 14 minutes.

Weaving personal experience with mythology and science. Writing in the Dark attempts to Explore the transformation of the psyche. Using a framework of oppositions (light and dark, nature And technology ), the layered imagery and sound express the conflict between identity and Politics and its relationship to spirituality.

A*B*C-THE ALPHABETIC TRIBE 1998.
Video, Super 8, B/W & Color
Director Susanna Schoenberg Italy. 25:00.

An outline of the director’s video memories. The memories average a minute per each letter in the alphabet. To be shown on video.

HOW WILL I KNOW I'M HERE
1995. 16mm, B/W & Color.
Director Toby MacLennan. New York. 45:00.
A film that blurs the distinction between conscious and unconscious to celebrate childhood dreams, intuition and searches for connections.

 

Experimental films from Serbia, Hungary, Switzerland and The US

CLOTHES FOR MOVING
Swizterland 1997 16mm color 4min.>
Rez /Dir. Karim Patawa

A great spoof on horror sci-fi movies. See a paniked man run through destruction, bombings while being chased by a giant guinea pig.

CRITERIA
16mm. Director Valiera Feldman. Columbus, Ohio. 6:00
More fun than fingernails on a blackboard.

JUMP NO 13
Video. Director Dragon Zivancevic. Novi Sad, Serbia. 6:46
Director Dragan Zivancevic. Serbia.

Life in turbulent times in a turbulent country. Jump 13 was filmed at The Solitaire in Novi Sad known as the suicide building.

NAMES
Video. Director Gabor Erdei. Kollegium, Hungary. 3:00.
Names of some contemporary historical figures become one at the end.

!AY QUE PELOS!
1997. 16mm. Director Pia Cseri-Briones. Rochester, NY. 21:00.
This bilingual film (interweaving English and Spanish) incorporates personal experiences,family histories, case studies and medical texts and uses these to examine the perception and (mis)understanding of anxiety disorders and panic attack syndrome. Visually structured to reflect and invoke the experience of panic attack.

HERE THERE AND ELSEWHERE
1997, Super 8, B/W & color. Director Lea Rekow. 12:00.
"Here, There and Elsewhere" is a poetic document that is based on the concept of camera as diary. It accentuates a subjective approach towards the collective of a visual ethnography of ritualistic motion. Shot in Asia.

BOUNDARIES
1996. Video/Performance. Director: Larisa Blazic, Yugoslavia, 1996 English and German
soundtrack made by John Cobbain, UK, Ridvan Ovung, Turkey,
Michael Burchardt, Germany, Svetislav Bankerovic, Larisa Blazic This is a woman who fights with physical & metaphysical obstacles...since, we are living in the age of visible and invisible boundaries/borders, within & around us, there is an urge which all of us have to feel in order to cross them. .

BODY MEMORY
1998. Video. Color. Director Sean Sullivan. US. 20 minutes
Body Memory is a experimental narrative built around the concept that the a body can harbor it’s own memories. Through flashbacks, The ultimate death of a young woman is explored as the viewer is drawn into the strange events of her final hours.

 

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KING OUTLAW
USA 1998 35mm/16mm/super 8/ beta SP/video black&white. 90 min.>Dir. Lech Kowalski
(A sneak preview!!) A shoot out between two cult rock & roll heroes. Long after the mysterious death of Johnny Thunders in a hotel room in New Orleans, Dee Dee Ramone raises the devil out of his grave. Dee Dee and Johnny become arch rivals in a story that can only happen in film space. This is a tale about what can happen to one outsider who was consumed by dark forces and another who survived them. As the story progresses we see how their lives are inextricably connected. Who wins the shoot out ? you be the judge.

 

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MISFITS: AMERICAN PSYCHO
1998. 16mm. Director John Cafiero. New York. 3:43.
A video from the the legendary horror punks the Misfits.

THE SORE LOSERS
USA 1997, 16mm, color. 89 min. RezDir. John Michael
McCarthy (Chicago) An action film with an exploitation mentality. Rockabillies from outer space come to earth to kill hippies. Blackie has been sent to Earth by the Elder to complete a mission begun 42 years earlier ? He must kill three more people making the total number 12 - with the help of his old buddy Mike, straight out of the mental institution and deliciously vicious Kerine. Kerine kills her parents in a fit of rage making the total number 13. The big problem is that 13 is an unlucky number. Featuring a lime green AMC pacer in aroad battle with a UFO powered '55 Chevy, a beer drinking angel, a cat fight in an electric chair and the entire city of Memphis destroyed by the force from outer space. Soundtrack by The Oblivions, The Makers, Guitar Wolf and much more.