If you’re in in billyburg this weekend stop by for art cinema shennanigans. …and let me know how it went because i can’t make it.
For The Rest Of Your Natural Life Productions presents:
The Absurd, The Dark, The Melodramatic
Summer Video Mixer August 5th 2008 8-10 pm
Free!
more info belows
Monkey Town HQ
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Seating is limited so make reservations here:
http://monkeytownhq.com/reservations.html
I hope you will join me to see my latest video projects along
with some of my favorite short films by other artists. Screening takes
place in Monkey Town’s 4 wall video projection and dining room.
The line up and times are listed below. Hope you can swing by for
dinner - drinks and some marvelous summer entertainment…….
Video Menu
Doors Open 7:30 Screening 8 pm
Appetizer:
Erika Yeomans’
Paging Dr. Freud
(4 frame video, 18 mins., 2007)
A montage of archival footage and source materials of
Yeomans’ performance art group Doorika-a quasi art-docudrama.
Featuring Casey Spooner, Marianne Potje, Bobby Conn, Ford Wright,
Magica Bottari among many others. Sources include Bambi, 42nd Street,
Cruel Story of Youth, In The Realm of the Senses, Suddenly Last
Summer, The Bad and the Beautiful among others.
Main Entrees:
Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears the Musical!
(Music Video, 8 mins., 2008)
In collaboration with novelist and Mc Sweeney’s contributor Ben Greenman
Featuring Simone Butler, Michael Abbott, Jr,, Ben Greenman, Mot
Filipowski, Juile Strong, Steven Jean Baptiste
Boo! (Horror/Suspense, 4 mins., 2008)
A suspenseful video haiku of horror and gallows humor; where a YOUNG
MAN gets ROPED in by a CAT LADY
Featuring Jenny Bass, Cosmo Pfeil
Michael Medaglia’s Foot Fetish
(2.5 mins, Super 8, 1997)
It’s not just about the feet.
Ry Russo Young’s Marion (6 mins, 2005)
A deconstruction of the Jason Leigh character from Psycho.
William Lamson videos:
Action Videos: 1,3,6,7,8,10
Sublunar Falling
Monument Valley Flight
Crash
Brent Hoff / Wholphin’s Bees
(7mins, Original Wholphin short)
A humorous look at the life of drunk bees.
Jared Larson’s Fifty States
(montage, 3 minutes, Benten )
35mm slides edited to Jared’s father’s memories of his three year road
trip in the late 1970s.
Desserts
Grand Gorge: No God But Me
(Western, 12 mins., 2008)
A darkly humorous look at the western genre; where white men seek
revenge and redemption.
Featuring Michael Abbott, Jr, Mot Filipowski, Cosmo Pfeil, Tom Gorman,
Julie Strong
Christine Giorgio’s The Bitter End (18 mins, 16 mm, 2008)
A Bunuelesque short about a group of friends who set sail for a day
trip only to mysteriously disappear one by one. A film that plays with
the thrill of peril and the evolution of a friendship while adrift at
sea. (SNEAK PEEK)
That’s it. The End. What the hell are you still reading for?! Go away now.