Vladimir Us
artist & curator
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Dear friends,> > This Saturday 9/20 I'll showcase excerpts from a handful of
80's> Soviet propaganda films I resurrected during my last couple trips to>
Chisinau, Moldova. Alongside these I'll preview found footage/archival> film
highlights created by the Eastern European artists participating> in the
workshops I co-led while there, capping off the segment (see> below) with live
music accompaniment to a remix of the Soviet> prop-films. All part of
OTHERCINEMA's fall series:> > WELCOME TO MARS + SHAW PRELINGER + DAVIS> >
"Kook-expert Ken Hollings jets in from London-town for the North> American
book-launch of his sub-pop Cult Study of Fifties America, on> the bizarre
intersection of cybernetics, behavior modification, atomic> weapons, and UFOs,
highlighting how these currents were refracted> through the visual surfaces of
popular culture, domestic design, and> suburban living. Responding from the US
side, Megan Shaw Prelinger,> representing her own forthcoming book Another
Science Fiction:> Advertising the Space Race, recalls the Eisenhower years with
a> fascinating flight through a pictorial history of aerospace ads,> retrieved
from her own SoMA library. For the third leg of this Cold> War re-visitation,
local A/V artist John Davis returns from, yes,> Moldova (formerly part of
Romania), with the media-archeological> remains of the very last Soviet
newsreels, reflecting on this same> period, but from the other side of the
"Iron Curtain"! He screens the> most astonishing agit-prop artifacts, and in
fact performs an original> sonic score, to a particularly uncanny iteration of
Socialist> Sur-Realism."> > ATA (Artist's Television Access) 992 Valencia (@
21st). Showtime> 8:30pm, admission $6> > http://www.othercinema.com/> > IN
ADDITION:> > The 3rd annual ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL will screen my 2008
short> film "What for What" on Oct. 4th:> > Saturday 10/4 features Kerry
Laitala's "Retrospectroscope," John> Davis' "What for What," Carl Diehl's
"Nocturnal Emissions," and Mack> McFarland's "In Search of a Mystic Bartone."
ALSO: provocative pieces> by Daya Cahen, Neil Ira Needleman, Esther Maria
Probst, Mike Rollo,> Douglas Schultz, and Telemach Wiesinger .> > The festival
opens Thursday 10/2 with CRAIG BALDWIN'S latest feature> "Mock Up On Mu." Don't
miss the intro act by Mu-vie star, Stoney Burke> as John McTaint (think
McCain)!> > In addition to the opener, the festival showcases 20 short films
that> run the cinematic gamut – from former SF rocker Jibz Cameron's> mercurial
"The Quiet Storm" to the gorgeous flicker of Paul Clipson's> "Sphinx on the
Seine."> > ATA (Artist's Television Access) 992 Valencia (@ 21st). Doors open>
7:30pm. Screenings at 8pm. Tickets $10.> > View details:> >
http://festival.atasite.org/2008/> > Hope you can make it!> > jd
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