Third Eye Cinema
Third Eye Cinema is a quarterly film program dedicated to experimental film and direct animation. Each program features films from up and coming filmmakers along with long established legends of the field. The screenings are followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. Films are screened in super 8, 16, & 35mm there will also be a small very small amount screened on Video. If you wish to submit your work you may do so by simply sending a VHS or DVD pre screening copy of your work for consideration. Please contact Luke Sieczek [sieczek@gmail.com] for more information.
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JULY 7, Monday at 8pm
PROFIT MOTIVE AND THE WHISPERING WIND
(John Gianvito, USA, 2007, Digi-BETA, 58 min)
A calm, beautiful and wordless testament to fallen rebels and radicals in American history, from colonial times to the present. The film consists of elegantly composed images of gravesites and public shrines. A monument to monuments and a call to arms, PROFIT MOTIVE visits the resting places of such figures as Malcolm X, Mother Jones, Cesar Chavez and Eugene V. Debs. Winner, Best Experimental Film, 2007, National Society Film Critics.
Screens with
PERFECT FILM
(Ken Jacobs, USA, 1986, 16mm, 22 min)
An experimental work structured around outtakes from TV news footage after the assassination of Malcolm X.
JULY 17, Thursday at 8pm
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!
THE PERFECT SHOW: The Films Of Karl Krogstad
“THE PERFECT SHOW is Karl Krogstad’s example of the most direct and unconventional expression possible — and it’s darned close to perfect! The program includes five new short films plus a lot of 'fillers.' The fillers aren’t really films, but the songs of birds. And when these birds sing you can almost smell the tail feathers. The show lasts about one hour and is like a feather that actually falls like a coin, to land on its edge. They are strange.” –Karl Krogstad
AUGUST 15 - 16, Friday - Saturday at 8pm
DIRECTOR IN ATTENDANCE!
RECEPTION AFTER FRIDAY SCREENING
MOCK UP ON MU
(Craig Baldwin, US, 2008, 114 min)
Notorious Bay Area "kino-renegade" Craig Baldwin tops his earlier found-footage operas SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM and SONIC OUTLAWS with this highly anticipated new work, a rapid-fire pulp serial–cum–political take on California’s major industries: the military, entertainment and religion. Hitting upon everything from Satanism to Scientology, the Beats to the jets (propulsion, that is), Baldwin revs up his characteristic stock footage remixes with live-action scenes of his own, adding an over-the-top pulp flair to the proceedings. Arising with demonic force from the detritus of the twentieth century, the film surveys “the repurposing of the popular imagination in postwar California,” according to Baldwin, tracing the “simultaneous rise and convergence of New Age religious cults, the military/aerospace industrial complex and modern-day myths from Disney to certain sci-fi overlords.”
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