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CANYON CINEMA'S 50TH ANNIVERSARY; "LOOSE ENDS" ZINE RELEASE

Date:
Saturday, October 14, 2017
Time:
8:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Event Type:
Screening
Organizer/Author:
Craig Baldwin
Location Details:
ATA Gallery 992 Valencia St.

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of our beloved Bay Area film co-op, Canyon alums Courtney Fellion and Linda Scobie twirl a whirlygig of illusory narratives and critical thoughts. The luv-fest features rarely seen 16mm prints from the legendary collection, including Diana Krumins’ surrealist assemblage "Babobilicons" and Mark Lapore’s "The Glass System", a cross-cultural mediation on the “impact of globalization and the hegemony of Western-style capitalism”. Local light Greta Snider’s street-poetic "Blood Story" precedes headliner "Loose Ends", Chick Strand’s kaleidoscopic collage on media oversaturation and psychological entropy. And tying up a final loose end, tonight’s party also sees the release of the fifth, consummating issue of the current configuration of "Canyon Cinemazine", as editors Fellion and Scobie return the baton to director Antonella Bonfanti for future incarnations. All five editions of their project are available for purchase, along with a raffle of color posters, test prints, plus free cake and champagne!!
Industrials amok! Here’s a jaw-dropping 16mm compilation of our most time-warped titles--educational, informational, and promotional films that together map out the real underside of 20C film production. These preposterous shorts—at times excerpted to foreground their sublimely ridiculous essence—come from that great mass of non-fiction films produced for extra-theatrical audiences—schools, churches, corporate groups—for the promulgation of certain ideas and products. Over these eight decades, their retrograde ideologies and modes of address have become increasing exposed, naked to the eye, like grotesque fossil skeletons in a paleo-media boneyard. Curated by Craig Baldwin, this uncanny initiative mines the most mind-melting filmic artifacts from OC’s 4000-plus, including Little Oscar Meyer, sex-ed, bed-wetting, noise cults, religious ecstasies, car fantasias, tech obsessions, ad absurdum. And beers for a buck!
Added to the calendar on Mon, Sep 18, 2017 6:45PM
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