All programs are ticketed separately.
* The SAT OCT 7, 5 PM program is free as part of REDCAT's participation in the Grand Avenue Festival.
Schedule:
THURS OCT 5, 8 PM
Filmmakers on the Edge – the CalArts Spirit
James Mangold NY Shuffle (1983) 5 min.
The director of Walk the Line and Heavy interprets a song by Graham Parker and the Rumor.
Stephen Hillenburg Wormholes (1993) 7 min.
A fly’s-eye view of Relativityland by the creator of Spongebob Squarepants.
Hyun kyung Kim Toilet Pig (2002) 7 min.
Korean farmers practice an old and surprising tradition of raising pigs.
Mari Okada The Correct Use of Oranges (2004) 17 min.
When she stops trying to please her demanding boyfriend, a young woman experiences jouissance for the first time.
Q. Allan Brocka Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World (2000) 8 min.
An outrageous sitcom, told with Playmobile figures, about America’s favorite boy-toys.
Ilene Segalove The Mom Tapes (1974–75) 10 min.
Groundbreaking videos that parody the pleasures and terrors of a Beverly Hills adolescence.
Betzy Bromberg Ciao Bella or Fuck Me Dead (1978) 13 min.
“Manic exhibitionism and sexual raunch” (J. Hoberman) in late 1970s New York.
Bill Brown Hub City (1997) 15 min.
A devastating tornado, the Lubbock Lights, and Buddy Holly.
Cy Kuckenbaker The Orphans (2006) 22 min.
The poignant and humorous story of two aging Lithuanian men who travel to Berlin to bury their childhood friend.
TRT: 114 min.
FRI OCT 6, 7 PM
Eric Saks Forevermore: Biography of a Leach Lord (1989) 83 min.
An extraordinary admixture of sobering realism and fanciful invention, Saks’s indictment of toxic waste dumping, corporate greed, and America’s disposable consumer culture is described as a “remarkable, neglected” faux documentary by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Preceded by:
K.C. Amos Syphon Gun (1995) 8 min.
Fiction film about a gasoline thief who wreaks havoc.
TRT: 91 min.
FRI OCT 6, 9:30 PM
Lin Li Three-Five People (2001) 85 min.
A heartbreaking portrait of heroin-addicted, HIV-positive homeless youth in China. The director documented these forgotten children with a hidden camera, only to have her life threatened by the police and the underworld.
SAT OCT 7, 5 PM
Fun Animated Creatures
Suitable for children
Mark Walsh (Pixar) Extra Crispy
Kathy Rose The Doodlers (1975) 5 min.
Miss Nose’s scribbly students have a mischievous tea party.
Paul Demeyer Papiers Animés (1979) 4 min.
A clever twist on the flipbook by the director of Rugrats in Paris: The Movie.
Gary Conrad, Leon Joosen, Chris Sanders Toby (1984) 10 min.
A masterful film by future Disney animators including Sanders, the writer-director of Lilo and Stitch, about a badly drawn boy.
Michael Nock Quangle Wangle (2000) 12 min.
Animation based on Edward Lear’s nonsensical poem.
Ellen Woodbury Liveline (1983) 2 min.
A panther’s stealthy movements, by a supervising animator of The Lion King and Hercules.
Stevie Wermers Small Fry (1993) 2 min.
A hilarious short by a longtime Disney storyboard artist.
intermission
Peter Ko Jon’s Day (2002) 3 min.
Hand-drawn animation about a restless skateboarder.
Max Weintraub Dance Mania (1997) 3 min.
Animated krump dancing and clowning.
Pete Docter (Pixar) Winter
John Lasseter (Pixar) Lady and the Lamp
Joe Ranft (Pixar) Good Humor
Jung-A Yoo Taking It on the Chin (2001) 4 min.
Whimsical animation about a born loser who strikes back.
Mark Osborne Greener (1993) 11 min.
A mixed-animation fable by the director of Dreamworks’ forthcoming Kung Fu Panda.
SAT OCT 7, 7:30 PM
Animation: Walk on the Wild Side
(Some Adult Content)
Maria Vasilkovsky Fur and Feathers (2000) 5 min.
A surrealist Slavic tango between a bird-man and a dog-woman, animated with watercolor on glass.
Gary Schwartz Animus (1982) 6 min.
Ingenious reworking of Edison and Muybridge films through animation and xerography.
Michael Patterson Commuter (1981) 5 min.
This take on rush hour in the naked city foreshadows Patterson’s legendary music video for a-ha, Take on Me.
Adam Beckett Sausage City
Ken Bruce (Pixar) Sis
Brooke Keesling Boobie Girl (2001) 5 min.
A flat-chested girl regrets what she wished for.
George Wiechelns Family (2004) 3 min.
A family romance, told with dolls and constructed sets, becomes a creepy roundelay of punishment and reconciliation.
JJ Villard Son of Satan (2004) 12 min.
Charles Bukowski’s cruel story of youth, animated with raw energy.
intermission
Colin Barton Unbearable Being (1996) 3 min.
A combustible handpainted collage.
Eric Darnell Filter Gallery (1991) 4 min.
The director of Dreamworks’ Madagascar and Antz experiments with tactility in this beautiful celluloid collage.
Karolina Sobecka Imprint (2003) 1 min.
A hand reaches out to grasp a frenetically shifting landscape.
Henry Selick Phases (1978) 4 min.
A mythopoetic cave painting by the director of The Nightmare Before Christmas and the upcoming Coraline.
Shon Kim Latent Sorrow (2005) 3 min.
Abstraction and figuration coalesce in this animated paean to Van Gogh and Jackson Pollack.
Jen Sachs The Velvet Tigress (2001) 11 min.
Animated documentary about the sensationalized “Trunk Murders” trial of 1931.
David Daniels Buzz Box (Re-Mix) (1985/2006) 9 min.
The creator of Peter Gabriel’s Big Time music video updates his “insanimated” critique of American politics and culture.
TRT approx. 82 min.
SAT OCT 7, 10 PM
Textures, Places, Memories
Danielle Ye Departure (2002) 7 min.
Manipulated found footage of trotting pigs, nude perambulators, and children used for target practice.
Solweig von Kleist Criminal Tango (1985) 5 min.
Neon-drenched noir.
Sandro Del Rosario L. City (2002) 8 min.
A noir photocollage becomes a slow tango of memory and oblivion.
Nana Tchitchoua Impressions from Rustaveli (2001) 14 min.
Interpretation of a romantic poem by an eleventh-century Georgian monk.
Arshia Haq (Re)Collection (2004) 20 min.
The archives of memory: an entomologist’s classification of insects, a printer’s nostalgia for his dying Urdu language, and an immigrant’s collection of childhood photographs.
Dorian Ahmeti Marshallah, Marshallah, Look How Pretty Our Bride Is! (2002) 7 min.
An Albanian wedding in all its bacchanalian revelry.
Naomi Uman Leche (1999) 30 min.
Hardscrabble farm life in Mexico becomes sensuous through unique handprocessing techniques.
TRT: 91 min.
SUN OCT 8, 2 PM
(re)Discovering the Work of Adam Beckett
During his brief career, artist Adam Beckett left an indelible mark on the world of animation and experimental film making. He also contributed to the Hollywood special effects industry most notably as head of the rotoscope and animation department for the first Star Wars movie. His independent films consist of abstract, evolving geometric and organic shapes, created with his pioneering animation and optical printer techniques.
Films shown: Heavy-Light (1973), Evolution of the Red Star (1973), Flesh Flows (1974), Sausage City (1974) and Kitsch In Synch (1976).
These films were recently restored by The iotaCenter (www.iotacenter.org), which is co-presenter of this program, in conjunction with The Academy Film Archive and with support from the NFPF (National Film Preservation Foundation) and the family of Adam Beckett.
Adam's biographer, Pamela Turner will introduce the program and present stories, drawings and photographs.
TRT approx. 90 min.
SUN OCT 8, 4:30 PM
(Post)Studio Artists
Student work by artists who studied under John Baldessari, Wolfgang Stoerchle, Morgan Fisher, and Michael Asher in the renowned 1970s Post-Studio Art program at CalArts. These conceptual and structuralist experiments with Portapack video and 8mm film remain as fresh and relevant today as when they first were made.
David Wilson Stasis 10 min.
Ken Feingold With Photos (1975) 6 min.
A forensic study of the photographic image.
Roberta Friedman, Grahame Weinbren Bertha’s Children (1976) 8 min.
“Everything being alike everything simply everything is different simply different naturally simply different” (Gertrude Stein).
Suzanne Lacy Learn Where the Meat Comes From (1976) 14 min.
A classic feminist video revealing the streak of Buñuelian savagery underlying television cooking shows.
Sharon Greytak Some Pleasure on the Level of the Source (1982) 13 min.
Isolated details--a clapboard house, a red rectangle, a girl jumping rope--suggest a narrative.
Tony Oursler Life of Phillis (1979) 55 min.
A psychosexual soap opera Oursler performed episodically in the CalArts lunchroom.
TRT approx. 106 min.
SUN OCT 8, 7 PM
Lines that Divide
Minda Martin a.k.a. Kathe (2000) 55 min.
A wrenching portrait of Mexican American Kathe Vargas, a drug-addicted prostitute murdered on the outskirts of Tuscon, Arizona, and the perilous fate of her sisters and son. Martin makes grievous and meaningful what would normally become fodder for tabloid journalism.
preceded by:
Elizabeth Wiatr Chapbook of the Non-Eminent (1993) 20 min.
A brilliant critique of gentrification in downtown Los Angeles employing phrenology, cartography, documentary footage, and staged dialogue to explore issues of racism, poverty, and nostalgia.
intermission
Travis Wilkerson An Injury to One (2002) 53 min.
On the notorious 1917 lynching of Wobbly organizer Frank Little; the collapse of the American labor movement; and the environmental destruction of Butte, Montana.
TRT: 128 min.
