eleven months pass...
sorry for the spam, but if you get the chance to go (and heckle me), you should:
Friday, March 26th @ ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES
.... a SAVE OUR FILMS benefit for ANTHOLOGY FILM
ARCHIVES ....
.... ...... CELESTIAL SUBWAY LAST STOP ALL OUT
...... ....
.... Animal Collective [aka Avey Tare & Panda Bear
& Geologist & Deaken]
........ Black Dice
.... Films and Live Visual Performance by: ....
.... Ken Jacobs' Nervous Magic Lantern
........ Olvey & Brown
............ Jud Yalkut
................ Jonas Mekas
.................... Bill Brand
........................ Stan Vanderbeek
.... and more ....
.... dj Mike Simonetti
...... dj Joel Hunt
32 Second Ave @ 2nd street, East Village,
Manhattan, all ages
FV/2nd Ave, $14 @ Other Music / $16 @ door, 8pm,
212.505.5181
[ ANIMAL COLLECTIVE ]
New York-based quartet featuring members Avey
Tare, Panda Bear, Deaken, & The Geologist, this
band creates exquisite musical landscapes,
intermingling electronic and acoustic textures to
tamper with and derange melodies. Their most
recent album, "Here Comes The Indian,"
demonstrates further exploration into new
boundaries of the sound sphere. A compilation
album and "Young Prayer" by Panda Bear will be
released by Paw Tracks, the label of the Animal
Collective, in the summer of 2004. Fat Cat records
will be releasing a new Avey Tare and Panda Bear
album next year as well. Their recently
re-released album " Spirit They're Gone, Spirit
They've Vanished / Danse Manatee" on the Fat Cat
label receiving rave reviews by The New York
Times, Time Out New York, The Wire, and several
others. Animal Collective will be playing a live
accompaniment together with films by Jud Yalkut,
Jonas Mekas, Stan Vanderbeek and more. Although
friends, Animal Collective & Black Dice have not
played together in a good long while.
[ FILMS DURING ANIMAL COLLECTIVE'S SET ]
Ralph Steiner, Jud Yalkut, Pat O Neill, Bill
Brand, Stan Vanderbeek. Animal Collective's live
performance will include films selected by the
band; including pieces by Jud Yalkut, Bill Brand,
Stan Vanderbeek, Pat O Neill and others. Each film
selected for their set embodies an inherent visual
rhythm that relates to their musical endeavors.
The set begins with beautiful abstract shots of
landscapes and superimpositions, generating a
tempo to illustrate the sound-scapes their music
evokes. The following film continues the organic
expression and yetpropels the image aspect to a
new direction, providing a good introduction to
films that explore synthetic techniques such as
processed imagery, color, optical techniques,
form, flicker, and animation.
[ FILMS DURING THE INTERMISSION ]
The Tempest by Olvey and Brown will be played
during the intermission. personal, rarely screened
favorite of Animal Collective band member Avey
Tare¹s - The Tempest is the first film by Olvey &
Brown. These Seattle based principal E.A.T.
members collaborated with sculptor Doris Chase and
worked most of the color-timing for Stan
Vanderbeek's films. Olvey and Brown won the first
competitive State's grant of $10,000 from the
National Endowment for the Arts to "advance the
art of filmmaking in the Northwest", garnering
international recognition with screenings on
national television. The film, having been pulled
out of circulation due to color fading of the
prints, has only been seen in its pristine glory
as part of the traveling program. This evening
will include the unveiling of this film in a brand
new print.
[ BLACK DICE ]
A New York quartet playing music that is not
easily categorized: challenging pieces that truly
explore possibilities in composition, from
avant-classical to epic, psychedelic rock,
manipulating and reorganizing sound into a fluid,
swelling frenzy. Their LP "Beaches & Canyons"
marked Black Dice's second full-length release
since the band's inception in 1998. It was
followed by the single "Cone Toaster," that saw
the band trying its hand at dance music. Their
follow-up LP has just been completed and will be
released by DFA Records in mid-2004. It will be
preceded by an EP entitled "Miles of Smiles" in
April 2004. Black Dice have been creating an
international underground stir with acclaim
ranging from such outlets as The New York Times to
Frieze magazine. Past performances at art spaces
such as the Andrew Kreps Gallery and the Swiss
Institute, align them with the New York art world.
Notorious for their history of aggressive live
performances that challenge sound barriers, their
music has grown to a state of spatial complexity,
creating a sea of electronic bass tones, altered
vocals, percussion experimentation and abstract
guitar drones. Ben Ratliff of The New York Times
raved "To see four musicians coming together and
making this kind of serrated, urban piping in a
glen - and the members of Black Dice have become
accomplished at it - is a little weird, and more
than a little compelling." Although friends,
Animal Collective & Black Dice have not played
together in a good long while. Black Dice will be
playing live musical accompaniment to Ken Jacobs'
Nervous Magic Lantern.
[ KEN JACOBS' NERVOUS MAGIC LANTERN ]
This evening Ken Jacobs will be performing his
Nervous Magic Lantern performance in a special one
time only collaboration with Black Dice.
"Spectacular spaces orbit through unthinkable
transformations as seen from changing angles of
view. A path of cinema never before traveled, deep
3-Dwithout spectacles or special screens,
available even to the one-eyed. Performed by way
of a down-to-the-bones projection device,
light-source and cooling fan, lens and spinning
shutter, it is hands-on projection with the
projectionist as main moving part. Toying with
light, the result is a vast3-D churning and
morphing, the equivalent of a Jackson Pollock and
then some, that could've been made to happen
before the invention of film and film transport
devices. That could've happened before Muybridge,
had minds been ready." -Ken Jacobs
**Warning: the Nervous Magic Lantern utilizes
flicker. Not for those afflicted with epilepsy.**
"I am delighted to be brought with some of my work
to the attention of a generation that may soon be
offering me their seats on the subway, and I don't
mean celestial. It is another point of bonding
with our son Azazel: Black Dice has a vivid
presence in his movie NOBODY NEEDS TO KNOW (soon
to play in NY as a selection of this year's Gen X
Film Festival) and the best part is that he
doesn't mind, he approves, he urges me to do it.
If any in the audience care to meet my other
personality, my six-hour-forty-minute bitter
laff-riot STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH will play at
Anthology in May. Filmed in the latter Fifties it
demonstrates that the generations in actuality
straddle the centuries, kids have always been kids
(if time travel were possible little kids would
meet and play entirely oblivious of differences in
time and place) and young people furious with the
stagnant braindeadedness of their circumstances
would see eye to eye on the spot. Art is time
travel." Ken Jacobs
[ ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - SAVE OUR FILMS ]
Founded in 1970 by Jonas Mekas, Anthology Film
Archives is a non-profit organization that
functions as an archive, movie theater, library,
gallery and educational resource for alternative,
classic, independent and Avant-Garde film.
Anthology's Independent Film Preservation program
was established in 1972. It has preserved hundreds
of essential films produced since 1920. Film
shrinkage, color fading, and chemical
disintegration are prevented by making protection
negatives and master prints. Currently Anthology
Film Archives' holdings include more than 4,000
titles. During the last few years, Anthology has
been responsible for saving thousands of films --
all independent productions abandoned by film
laboratories. Anthology Film Archives "Save our
Films" benefits assist Anthology with financial
hurdles relating primarily to Anthology's Film
Preservation Program. There are many titles in the
archive that still have yet to be identified. For
some films, all Anthology has is the original
negative which cannot be watched until a print is
struck. In other cases films have to be withdrawn
permanently from being screened. Beyond the burden
of maintaining and preserving the permanent
collection, the condition of the building is
deteriorating. Despite these problems, Anthology
is still very much an operating institution with
daily screenings of films ranging from
Retrospectives to Film Festivals. Unlike other
movie theaters, Anthology does not rely on the Box
Office for income. Past Save Our Films benefits
have included Artists such as Low, Palace, Yo La
Tengo, Patti Smith, Alan Licht, Ida, David Grubbs,
John Zorn with Milford Graves and Ikue Mori, The
Roger Sisters and Destroyer among several others.
In June 2002, Anthology's back alley served as the
venue for the 2nd Annual Garage Sale. In 2000, God
Speed you Black Emperor! played two sold out shows
at the Knitting Factory.
[ Organized by ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - Save Our
Films ]
― hstencil, Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)
Don't forget the after-party. Cheap, donated PBR and money you spend on PBR goes to the Anthology.
Friday, March 26th @ 6'S & 8'S Las Vegas Casino Bar
.. a SAVE OUR FILMS benefit for ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES ..
.. .... afterparty for: CELESTIAL SUBWAY LAST STOP ALL OUT .... ..
.... dj Brian Degraw (from Gang Gang Dance)
........ dj Dan Selzer
............ dj Mike Simonetti
205 Chrystie St @ Stanton St, Lower East Side, Manhattan
FV to 2nd Ave, 11pm-2am, 21+, 212.505.2543
[ Organized by ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES - Save Our Films ]
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 25 March 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)
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