Sat 1/17
Sound & Movement: Films by Jeremy Moss & Patrick Cain

A special pre-calendar show by two  touring filmmakers focuses on the intersection of sound, movement and film. Tonight we are happy to present Jeremy Moss (PA/UT) screening a selection of his recent 16mm films that engage dance  and radical abstraction. Three of his films will feature live sound played by local Tucson violinist & composer Vicki Brown. Also screening is Patrick Cain (DC/NY), who engages both music & film from a lo-fi handmade aesthetic. He will be accompanying his own films with a live tape sound mix. A super cool evening of film not to be missed in toasty Tucson!!

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Jon Behrens: Exquisite Celluloid Filmmaker Jon Behrens in person.

Sunday, November 23

 

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For more than 30 years Jon Behrens has worked as a film artist. Since the age of 16, Behrens has made well over 100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film experiments in which the celluloid film stock itself has been manipulated. Behrens has ceaselessly realized a practice of creating visually stunning films that combine painterly concerns with acute photographic observations. Behrens brings a new selection of recent 16mm films & videos to EV tonight.

 

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Sun 11/23
Jon Behrens: Exquisite Celluloid

Filmmaker Jon Behrens (Seattle) in person.

For more than 30 years Jon Behrens has worked as a film artist. Since the age of 16, Behrens has made well over 100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film experiments in which the celluloid film stock itself has been manipulated. Behrens has ceaselessly realized a practice of creating visually stunning films that combine painterly concerns with acute photographic observations. Behrens brings a new selection of recent 16mm films & videos to EV tonight.

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Silent Film // Live Music: THREE DOG NIGHT Salvador Dali & Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou

Tuesday, October 28

Silent Film // Live Music: THREE DOG NIGHT

Salvador Dali & Luis Buñuel’s Un Chien Andalou ($10 admission)

Vicki Brown, Naim Amor & Salvador Duraneach perform a unique live score to Dali & Buñuel’s 1929 silent surrealist film classic, Un Chien Andalou. Come experience the most provocative and confrontational film of all times interpreted by 3 of Tucson’s finest musicians in the form of 3 unique soundtracks that will forever change your experience of the film. Tonight, experience 3 times the eye-slicing & ear thrilling wonder all presented in a 16mm film projection event!!At its Paris premiere, the 21 minute Chien caused a riot with it’s sexual and religious blasphemy! Almost 100 years past it’s making, the film remains a deeply mysterious, provocative and frighteningly beautiful framing of our collective dreamspun unconscious.

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AMAZING HANDMADE FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA: Filmmaker Richard Tuohy in person

Thursday, October 9

AMAZING HANDMADE FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA

Filmmaker Richard Tuohy in person

Richard Tuohy’s handcrafted 16mm films use captivating visual manipulations to sculpt an activated and reanimated reality which collectively represent a distinctively live cinematic experience. More visual then cerebral, these pictures move, and with an energy unique to film. While covering a range of techniques, strategies and visual themes, they each share the same tenacious unfolding of a set of abstract possibilities from out of singular visual ideas. This program presents eight hand-processed and DIY printed 16mm film works from the Tuohy’s recent output. The films, though diverse, are all highly abstract and tightly structured and share a fascination with the visual possibilities of basic traditional film technology.

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Thu 10/9
AMAZING HANDMADE FILMS FROM AUSTRALIA Filmmaker Richard Tuohy in person

Richard Tuohy’s handcrafted 16mm films use captivating visual manipulations to sculpt an activated and reanimated reality which collectively represent a distinctively live cinematic experience. More visual then cerebral, these pictures move, and with an energy unique to film. While covering a range of techniques, strategies and visual themes, they each share the same tenacious unfolding of a set of abstract possibilities from out of singular visual ideas. This program presents eight hand-processed and DIY printed 16mm film works from the Tuohy’s recent output. The films, though diverse, are all highly abstract and tightly structured and share a fascination with the visual possibilities of basic traditional film technology.

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Sun 6/29 Tramp Species of the American Southwest

Tramp Species of the American Southwest
Ralph White and Bill Daniel on tour
Hobo filmmaker/punk photographer Bill Daniel, and freak/folk traditionalist/experimentalist Ralph White (former Bad Livers) tour West Texas, New Mexico and Arizona with a show that features Ralph’s hybrid musical performance— including an improve set with 16mm films— plus a film screening of Daniel’s underground classic, Who is Bozo Texino?, plus other new short films from the American micro-cinema scene. Pop-up photo show at some venues.
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“…the work of a player who has fully internalized old time and bluegrass and who is now reshaping them into a brand new, highly individualized form…this guy isn’t naive; he’s a master” (Justin Farrar, Strawberry Flats)
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“In his work, Daniel is attracted to outsiders in the most literal sense — people who live on the outside of civilization, for whom, in Daniel’s eyes, mere survival is an act of artistic expression.” -RES Magazine

Watch “Who Is Bozo Texino?” trailer here:

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LA UNDERGROUND #2- BURNING BUNGALOWS: Experimental Film & Animation on the Road From LA

Filmmakers in person!

The second part of our series investigating new work from regional hotbeds of experimental media. The artists write, “With a handmade mix of animation and live action on video, super 8, 16mm and 35mm slides we’re covering all the bases for an eclectic hour and 20 minutes.  The films tend toward an ethereal conjuring of spirits with a dystopian punk attitude.” Filmmakers Alee Peoples, Cosmo Serguson & Abby Banks will be here in person to present this unusual assortment of new work!

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Wed 4/9
EXPERIMENTAL FILM FROM BERLIN

WED. 4/9 @ 7:30

Filmmakers in person w/ live multi-16mm film performance!!

Anja Dornieden & Juan David González are experimental filmmakers living and working in Berlin. Since 2010 they have been working together under the moniker OJOBOCA. In their work they are practitioners of Horrorism, a simulated method for inner and outer transformation. Tonight, their program, titled Now I Want to Laugh will present a thought provoking selection of their recent 16mm films and performances.

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SAT 3/22
COLLABORATION WITH NATURE: Films Made with Natural Processes

SAT. 3/22 @ 7:30

Julie Perini & Amy Harwood in person!

Direct filmmaking meets environmental action in a program of films using organic and inorganic material to alter the film surface. Co-presented by Signal Fire, an organization engaging artists in our remaining wild and open spaces, this collection shows a range of effects used to intervene on the actual film exposure and processing: decay, spore hosting, compost, exposure to bioluminescent plants, processing in polluted lakes, magnetic alteration, and more.  The program includes work by Dorothea Braemer & Brian Milbrand, Dagie Brundert, Caryn Cline, Devon Damonte, Lori Felker, Melissa Friedling, Eva Kolcze, Robbie Land, Christine Lucy Latimer, Julie Perini, Jeremy Rendina and Ken Paul Rosenthal.

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