Summer 2000
All programs were curated by Astria Suparak and accompanied by program notes, unless otherwise noted.

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August 2000
Thursdays 8pm- midnight.


Dive-In Poster. See more here.		 "DIVE-IN MOVIES: Flix from the Great B-yond"

@ PS1 CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER, Long Island City, NY		 A return of the Living Drive-in. Held outdoors on the urban beach, Dive-in Movies is a technicolored summer of star- gazing, subversive silver screen myths, love notes from the underground, and 3-D creatures that only come out at night.

Outdoor Summer Film Series co-curated by Ocularis, Astria Suparak, and Bradley Eros. Lighting design by Galapagos Art and Performance Space.

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Each classic B-feature is preceded by a program of short films by experimental and underground directors: works that spin out from the B-side: vulgar and sublime reworkings of cultural detritus and cinema cliches. Sprinkled with rare celluloid novelties. Risque Scopitones, lurid trailers, digest features.

Dive in to P.S.1 for cinema, snow cones, a cool drink, and poolside surprises in a unique open-air environment. Dunescape, an urban beach by architecture group SHoP, is comprised of wading pools, misters, changing cabanas, and a boardwalk, inviting visitors to lounge, socialize, sunbathe, and cool off. This also houses the acclaimed DJ Warm-Up Series. Bring your beach blanket for reclined movie viewing!		 New York Times:

"Horrors! Sand, sea, stars and cinema. Could it get any better? B-movie buffs can throw down their beach blankets and dig in their toes when "Dive-In Movies" recreates the legend of the drive-in movie at P.S.1... The two-night series offers short experimental films before venturing into alien territory with a 3-D version of "The Creature from the Black Lagoon" on Thursday..."

PS1 summer postcard.		 Concurrent exhibitions and events featuring the work of visual and sonic artists on the subject of sound at PS1:
- Volume, Bed of Sound.
Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, David Behrman, John Cale, Throbbing Gristle founders Chris & Cosey, Chop Shop, Cibo Matto, Nicolas Collins, Beth Coleman, Tony Conrad, Cubanismo, Chris Cutler, Fischerspooner, Matt Heckert of Survival Research Laboratories, John Hudak, I-Sound, Arto Lindsay, Alvin Lucier, Ikue Mori, Butch Morris, Walter Murch, Phill Niblock, Carsten Nicolai, Genesis P-Orridge, Bob Ostertag, John Oswald, PanSonic, Zeena Parkins, Lou Reed, Vernon Reid, The Residents, Michael Schumacher, Sonic Youth, Steinski, Carl Stone, more.
With installations by Ugo Rondinone, Christian Marclay, Pipilotti Rist, Jonathan Bepler.
- Max Neuhaus: Drawings.
- Warm Up 2000: PS1's critically acclaimed and enormously popular DJ series. Features and eclectic mix of experimental, electronic, hip hop, reggae, jazzy Afro-Brazilian house.
- Min Tanaka: Roof-top presentations continues Butoh dancer Tanaka's "Life Contract" with PS1.
Continuing throughout the summer.
- Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties.
- Stair Procession by William Kentridge.
- Greater New York.
August 17, 2000

C. Cook, "Mother Nature"; "Creature from the Black Lagoon" poster.		 "Marvelous Creatures"

(PG-13)		 "My pool is sometimes troubled. One sees strange fantasies in the water." - The Mummy. Out-of-this-world perils, horrifying pleasures, supernatural beings, bathing beauties, and monsters among us.

1) "Mother Nature," Cathy Cook, 1996, 16mm, 5 min.

2) "Space War," Christy Karacas, 1997, 16mm, 3 min.

3) "Bust Up," Cathy Cook, 1989, 16mm, 7min.

4) "The Evil of Dracula," Martha Colburn, 1998, 16mm, 3 min.

5) "The Mummy," 1932, 16mm, condensed feature by Castle Films, 10 min.

6) "Outer Space," Peter Tscherkassky, 1999, 16mm, 10 min.

7) Intermission: Classic drive-in promotional films:
Horror FIlm Trailers, 16mm, 20 min: Bs from the 1950s and '60s featuring Robert Vaughn and Steve Reeves before they were famous. Including Attack of the Puppet People, Bucket of Blood, Godzilla vs. The Thing, I was a Teenage Caveman, War of the Colossal Giants, Angry Red Planet, How to Make a Monster, and others.

8) 3-D Feature: "The Creature from the Black Lagoon," Jack Arnold, 1954, 79 min. 3D glasses provided.		 "Indie Cinema Lures the Masses" review by D. Canales

"Welcome to Williamsburg's Ocularis, an independent cinema collective that combines the outdoor comfort of a drive-in with the visual and mental stimulation that independent cinema used to provide when it was still independent. Ocularis turns film into an experience again and replaces pre-fab storylines and special effects with the wonder we felt when watching movies for the first time.

Take a recent showing in the outdoor sculpture parking lot of MoMA's PS1 contemporary art center, when the crowd plunked down on blankets or into folding chairs to sink their eyes into A Pool of Lust: a collection of shorts celebrating experimental film and erotica... That [the films'] began at all, that the crowd waited for them to start, proves experimental and repertoire films can have an avid following here in New York. Under the stars, spectators sitting on sculptures, folding chairs and blankets saw 10 shorts in an outdoor space full to capacity.

[see section below for excerpt]

The total cumulative effect of the short experimental films overpowered the main feature, Cobra Woman...

More than simply watching a film, we interacted with an ambulatory film troupe, we became part of a performance, a happening; we had the experience of a film event for the everyman or the every child in us as we ran around the grounds during the interludes." 
August 24, 2000

N. Uman, "removed"; M. McCormick, "Sincerely..."; R. Arnold, "The Morphology of Desire."		 "Pool of Lust"

(R)

"Juvenile does not equal shameful and trash is the material of creators. It exists whether one approves or not. You may not approve of the Orient but it's half the world and it's where spaghetti came from. Trash is true of Maria Montez flix but so are jewels, Cobra jewels and so is wondrous refinement." - Jack Smith, The Perfect Film Appositeness of Maria Montez.

1) "Sincerely, Joe P. Bear," Matt McCormick, 4 min, 16mm

2) "The Morphology of Desire," Robert Arnold, 1999, 16mm, 6 min.

3) "Removed," Naomi Uman, 1998, 16mm, 6 min.

4) "Mosholu Holiday," George Kuchar, 1966, 16mm, 9 min.

5) "Ass Dance," Cathy Cook, 2000, video transferred to 16mm, 30 sec.

6) "Another Kind of Green," Thad Povey, 1989, 16mm, 6 min.

7) "There's a Pervert in our Pool," Martha Colburn, 1998, 16mm, 4 min.

8) Scopitone Films, "Web of Love" and "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes," circa 1960s, 6 min.

9) "Breathe," Jay Capela, 1994, 16mm, 10 min.

10) "Just For You GIrls," M.M. Serra, 1997, 1 min.

11) Tropical Adventure Trailers, in glorious technicolor

12) Feature: "Cobra Woman," Robert Siodmak, 1944, 70 min.
  [excerpt from above review]
"In Sincerely, Joe P. Bear Matt McCormick used hand-painted film to create a seductive light entity and appropriated news clips to show how polar bears cope with unrequited love. While in Robert Arnold's The Morphology of Desire morphine covers of Harlequin novels interspersed with lines from romance novels spun into a final collective kiss. In Naomi Uman's Removed, Uman re-appropriated the female body and rescued female desire from clips of '70s moving image pornography to the sound of loud moaning by evocatively covering them with the brushstrokes of nail polish remover. Afterwards was Cathy Cook's brief, yet very moving, Ass Dance, followed by the overboard, animated spazzmentary, There's a Pervert in our Pool, a Martha Colburn collaboration with Fred Colline's poetry. Then there was Jay Capela's found footage in the touching, Breathe, a comedy on the end of romance. Finally a commercial on what two women could do to each other with Johnson's Baby Powder to relieve summer heat in M.M. Serra's Just for You Girls."

C. Marclay, "Record Players."		 "Broken Music"

Curated and presented by Suparak.

Oct 21, Saturday
(Austin, TX) Cinematexas International Short Film + Video Festival.

Nov 4, Saturday, 7pm & 9pm
Nov 5, Sunday, 3pm.
(Houston, TX) The Aurora Picture Show.

 See reviews here.
September - November, 2000


Tour poster.


SKL video cover.

M. July, "The Swan Tool."

 "All Night Long with Miranda July and Astria Suparak" In celebration of the videotape release, SOME KIND OF LOVING TOUR: All Night Long with Miranda July and Astria Suparak.

Performing artist and videomaker Miranda July performs sneak previews excerpted from her new multi-media performance (The Swan Tool) with original live score by Zac Love.

Suparak presents work from the sparkling-new Joanie 4 Jackie Co- Star Tape #3: Some Kind of Loving.

Oct 24
(Bellingham, WA)--Allied Arts Performance Space.

Oct 25
(Vancouver, BC)--8:30pm. Blinding Light!! Cinema.

Oct 26
(Olympia, WA)--9:30pm. The Olympia Film Festival at the Capitol Theater

Oct 27
(Seattle, WA)--8:00pm. The Little Theatre

Oct 28, Saturday
(Portland, OR) 8:00pm. The Hollywood Theatre, 4122 NE Sandy Blvd.

Nov 7, Tuesday
(Chico, CA) 7:30pm. The Blue Room Theatre. 139 West First Street.

Nov 8
(San Francisco, CA)--1:00pm. San Francisco Art Institute. Guest lecture in Jon Rubin's New Genres class.

Nov 8, Wednesday
(Berkeley, CA) 7:30pm. Pacific Film Archive. 2575 Bancroft Way.

Nov 9, Thursday
(Santa Cruz, CA) 9pm: The Rio Theatre. 1205 Soquel Ave.

Nov 10, Friday
(San Francisco, CA) 9pm. San Francisco Cinemateque at the San Francisco Art Institute. 800 Chestnut St.

Nov 11, Saturday
(Santa Barbara, CA) 7pm. Santa Barbara Community College at the Atkinson Gallery. 721 Cliff Drive.

Nov 13, Monday
(Valencia, CA) 7PM. CalArts The Bijou Theater. 2400 McBean Pkway.

Nov 14, Tuesday
(Claremont, CA) 3:00pm. Pitzer College at Broad Performance Space, 1050 N. Mills Ave.

Nov 16, Thursday
(Los Angeles, CA) 7:30pm. L.A. Freewaves Festival @ Side Street Projects. 425 South Main Street. 		Willamette Week:
"Of the five films to be screened, the Brakhagian Fine Lines" by Britain's Jane Gang is a haunting rant against the death of perception, while Jennifer Reeder's Lullaby is a disturbing collision between pop culture and personal identity."

Pacific Film Archives:
"[Some Kind of Loving] tracks female sexuality through the quagmire of loony and lascivious cultural codes." -Steve Seid, Curator

Bust Magazine:
"SOME KIND OF LOVING, curated by Astria Suparak, features five different filmmakers presenting pieces shot using various techniques about sex, women, and modern culture. I love this compilation and the series idea, and will look forward to seeing what JOANIE 4 JACKIE comes out with next. If you have any interest at all in women in film and video today, you should definitely get this tape."


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