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<P class=EC_EC_EC_style3 align=left><FONT color=#808080>Vladimir Us</FONT></P>
<P class=EC_EC_EC_style3 align=left><FONT color=#808080>artist & curator</FONT></P>
<P class=EC_EC_EC_style3 align=left><FONT color=#808080><A href="http://www.oberliht.org.md/" target=_blank>http://www.oberliht.org.md</A></FONT></P><BR><BR>> Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:44:48 -0700<BR>> From: 0johndavis0@gmail.com<BR>> To: 0johndavis0@gmail.com<BR>> Subject: OTHERCINEMA + ATA Film Festival<BR>> <BR>> Dear friends,<BR>> <BR>> This Saturday 9/20 I'll showcase excerpts from a handful of 80's<BR>> Soviet propaganda films I resurrected during my last couple trips to<BR>> Chisinau, Moldova. Alongside these I'll preview found footage/archival<BR>> film highlights created by the Eastern European artists participating<BR>> in the workshops I co-led while there, capping off the segment (see<BR>> below) with live music accompaniment to a remix of the Soviet<BR>> prop-films. All part of OTHERCINEMA's fall series:<BR>> <BR>> WELCOME TO MARS + SHAW PRELINGER + DAVIS<BR>> <BR>> "Kook-expert Ken Hollings jets in from London-town for the North<BR>> American book-launch of his sub-pop Cult Study of Fifties America, on<BR>> the bizarre intersection of cybernetics, behavior modification, atomic<BR>> weapons, and UFOs, highlighting how these currents were refracted<BR>> through the visual surfaces of popular culture, domestic design, and<BR>> suburban living. Responding from the US side, Megan Shaw Prelinger,<BR>> representing her own forthcoming book Another Science Fiction:<BR>> Advertising the Space Race, recalls the Eisenhower years with a<BR>> fascinating flight through a pictorial history of aerospace ads,<BR>> retrieved from her own SoMA library. For the third leg of this Cold<BR>> War re-visitation, local A/V artist John Davis returns from, yes,<BR>> Moldova (formerly part of Romania), with the media-archeological<BR>> remains of the very last Soviet newsreels, reflecting on this same<BR>> period, but from the other side of the "Iron Curtain"! He screens the<BR>> most astonishing agit-prop artifacts, and in fact performs an original<BR>> sonic score, to a particularly uncanny iteration of Socialist<BR>> Sur-Realism."<BR>> <BR>> ATA (Artist's Television Access) 992 Valencia (@ 21st). Showtime<BR>> 8:30pm, admission $6<BR>> <BR>> http://www.othercinema.com/<BR>> <BR>> IN ADDITION:<BR>> <BR>> The 3rd annual ATA FILM & VIDEO FESTIVAL will screen my 2008 short<BR>> film "What for What" on Oct. 4th:<BR>> <BR>> Saturday 10/4 features Kerry Laitala's "Retrospectroscope," John<BR>> Davis' "What for What," Carl Diehl's "Nocturnal Emissions," and Mack<BR>> McFarland's "In Search of a Mystic Bartone." ALSO: provocative pieces<BR>> by Daya Cahen, Neil Ira Needleman, Esther Maria Probst, Mike Rollo,<BR>> Douglas Schultz, and Telemach Wiesinger .<BR>> <BR>> The festival opens Thursday 10/2 with CRAIG BALDWIN'S latest feature<BR>> "Mock Up On Mu." Don't miss the intro act by Mu-vie star, Stoney Burke<BR>> as John McTaint (think McCain)!<BR>> <BR>> In addition to the opener, the festival showcases 20 short films that<BR>> run the cinematic gamut – from former SF rocker Jibz Cameron's<BR>> mercurial "The Quiet Storm" to the gorgeous flicker of Paul Clipson's<BR>> "Sphinx on the Seine."<BR>> <BR>> ATA (Artist's Television Access) 992 Valencia (@ 21st). Doors open<BR>> 7:30pm. Screenings at 8pm. Tickets $10.<BR>> <BR>> View details:<BR>> <BR>> http://festival.atasite.org/2008/<BR>> <BR>> Hope you can make it!<BR>> <BR>> jd<BR><br /><hr />Discover the new Windows Vista <a href='http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=windows+vista&mkt=en-US&form=QBRE' target='_new'>Learn more!</a></body>
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