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DESCRIPTION:A benshi was a film-teller, someone who wrote a script to narrate and act 
 out from the stage what is happening on the movie creen.  This was a major 
 profession in Korea and Japan in the silent film era. Sometimes the benshi 
 ventriloquized the characters in the movie, sometimes just narrated the 
 action, sometimes remained silent. They always wrote their own scripts.  
 Neo-benshi warps that format to a modern entertainment-art of taking back 
 the movies for ourselves.  Screenplays are tossed, subtexts are revealed 
 and genres are transposed to another key. In this festival of alternate 
 readings, six scenes from major films are wrested from the studios by 
 turning the sound off, and re-telling them in real time.  Making use of a 
 form of the Kuleshov Effect, writer/performers from the Bay Area will 
 re-present the following genres:  Sci-Fi Horror: eSNAIL (1979)     by 
 Stephanie Young  Historical Epic: O TRY (2004)     by David Larsen  
 Bollywood Melodrama: PYAASA (1957)     by Rodney Koeneke  Hollywood 
 Melodrama: ROUT TWICE, HEAL, BE USA (1955)     by Roxanne Power Hamilton  
 French Crime Drama: EX JUD (1963)     by Norma Cole & Mac McGinnes  Serial 
 Western: THE NH PRIMATE POEM (1935)     by Brandon Brown  Neo-benshi is the 
 karaoke of cinema.    -- Konrad Steiner\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/28/70283.php
SUMMARY:NEO-BENSHI: The latter day art of live film narration
LOCATION:SF Cinematheque  at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts     701 Third (at 
 Mission St)     San Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/06/28/70283.php
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