INTERNATIONAL / UT / JO'S:
ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE
"Paper is dead. . . except for toilet paper. If Joyce lived today, he would surely have written his Finnegan's Wake on videotape." --Nam June Paik, 1968
Sept. 21 | 9:00 pm | Jo's Coffee Shop (1300 S. Congress)
Summer Sketch Marks
U.S.A. 20:00 video
DIR George Kuchar
George Kuchar spends the summer like it's meant to be spent! Visits to Chinatown and Provincetown, lazy days drawing at the beach, meals with friends and walks with dogs. Underneath the magical sweetness of summer lie hints of a constant awareness of autumn, of age and death around the corner. And of course, George's inimitable video effects. - J.H.
A Perfect Day
France 4:15 video
DIR Pierre Yves Clouin
Inside this still life, Clouin takes his absurdist physical comedy to its ultimate conclusion. With almost no movement whatsoever, things are seen, missed. A door slowly swings open. Things aren’t noticed until they vanish. It doesn’t make sense until it’s over. - .D.B.
Omen
U.S.A. 11:00 video
DIR Peter Rose
“Immensity illumines me.”–Giuseppe Ungaretti. The gradients of Peter Rose’s light play move gracefully from cloud shifting shadows to the chiaroscuro of Piranesian subterranea. - S.A.
10 on Paik
Korea 21:00 video
Dir: Jae Sung Kim
Ten shorts on the father of video art, Nam June Paik.
Salt and Glue
U.S.A. 5:00 video
Dir: Samantha Krukowski
The eponymous substances applied to clear film leader and transferred to video, crumple, erupt and implode into analog and digital textures dancing alternately with and against each other to the rhythm of pulsating colors.- S.P.
Richart
U.S.A. 23:00 video
DIR Vanessa Renwick, Dawn Smallman
An eccentric uber-artist transforms his Centralia, Washington home into an ever-expanding sculpture through the recycling of society's scraps, trash and refuse. The filmmakers employ fluid aesthetics that complement their subject's artwork and manic philosophies (including the organization of all information, materials, and people entering his space into an impromptu Base-5 numbering system). - J.C.
Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage
U.S.A. 18:58 video
DIR Heather Rogers
A highly entertaining yet critical exploration of corporate greenwashing and the pop culture mythologies that support it. Anti-litter and recycling campaigns are viewed as distractions from a deeper examination of the inevitable consequences of consumerism. - J.H.
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