Enjoy an evening of percolating conversations with friends peppered with cinematic inspiration and thought provoking entertainment by local San Francisco Filmmakers. --------------------------
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- (415) 642-0474 rita.piffer@gmail.com or camillegregoire@yahoo.com http://www.myspace.com/revcafe2006
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Following up the INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE ELIMINATION OF VIOLENCE TOWARD WOMEN AND GIRLS we will screening two documentaries which reflects the movement:
'El Camino que se Abre'
in July of 2005 a group of Artists, Healers and Activists gathered on Km 55 of the Mexico Cuernavaca highway, where the brutalized body of a 22... year old was found.
A document of a community who refused to remain indifferent to the systematic violence toward women. Moving and deeply transforming.
18 mins
Spanish with subtitles
field video Guadalupe Olvera
post produced by Jesus Contreras
'Code Name: Butterflies'
The first documentary to tell the powerful story of the Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic. In the 1950s, Patria, Minerva and Maria Teresa Mirabal created a secret resistance movement against Rafael Trujillo, one of the most bloodthirsty tyrants the world has ever known. When the dictator had them assassinated making it seem like an accident, the country rose up against Trujillo and he was killed. The courage of these women, who were simple wives and mothers, who helped bring freedom and democracy to their country is legendary. Today, the Dominican Republic owes much to these incredible women who dared to fight for what they believed in.
Directed by Cecilia Domeyko
63min.
Time:8:30PM Monday, December 7th
Location:Revolution Cafe
Cinema Revolution 'Joe goes to Serbia' is a documentary following Joe Mama the clown on one of his yearly trips to Serbia. He travels to the region to perform circus for refugee children in Kosovo. A funny and touching look at life.
Time:9:00PM Monday, November 30th
Location:Cafe Revolution
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14 original songs in 14 original minutes tell the story of Jesus returning to Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a Store Santa so he can deliver the true meaning of Christmas to those the future will lie upon. But it’s sadly not so ...easy. The modern world is no place for an out of touch savior. Can Jesus take back his holiday? Find out in the local musical comedy extravaganza, "I Am Jesus Christ". Co-starring John the Baptist.
Website: www.myspace.com/iamjesuschristfilm
Album: www.cdbaby.com/cd/vincentgargiulo
Time:9:00PM Monday, December 14th
Location:Cafe Revolution
Cinema Revolution This monday Documentary about Dia De Los Muertos in SF by local filmmaker Christian Figueroa! RT 10 min. If you have any film/video related to the subject, join the celebration!
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Screening of Videos made for Agents Del Futuro - a music project of composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Jesse Solomon Clark.
Grange is a new instrumental record; it's also a melodramatic non-representational portrait of America from the time of the annexation of Texas to the present day. I guess it could be cla...ssified as post-rock or experimental, maybe. Composed and performed exclusively on acoustic and electric (as opposed to software-based) instruments, Grange is certainly not an electronic music album, although the arrangements and editing give it a contemporary form.
Named after The National Grange Of The Order of Patrons of Husbandry, the album is influenced by open spaces and the relentless, rigorous and sometimes menacing order imposed on the land by humans. I used a constellation of related ideas to give the album shape: Manifest Destiny, golf, the disappearing bees, manufactured realities, deserted towns, regicide, migration of species.
I brought in some great players to contribute: Joe Lewis on upright bass, Cornelius Boots on bass clarinet, throat singing, taimu-shakuhachi and metal pipes, Rich Bologna on prepared piano and organ, and Alan Stewart on acoustic guitar.
I also commissioned a series of music videos, each by a different filmmaker.
Lee Gardner ("Tees and Greens") works as an editor in Los Angeles. He cut the indie feature "Sweet Sunny South" and the music video "Heartbreaker" for MSTRKRFT, as well as many other short films, music videos and commercial TV spots. His children may have had an influence on the choice of props used in his video for "Tees and Greens".
Mac Premo ("Resilience" and "Towards the Setting Sun") is an animator, a commercial director, a creative director, an illustrator, a collagist and a carpenter. His occupation as a carpenter provided the setting for his videos "Resilience" and "Towards the Setting Sun". He resides in Brooklyn.
Benton-C Bainbridge ("The Rest") is a live video artist and video installation artist living in New York. He currently performs video with Bobby Previte as "Dialed In", as well as designing video with Minou Maguna for John King's new opera "Galileo Galilei". The material he used in his video for "The Rest" was assembled from an 8mm home movie shot in the Soviet Union in the '80's.
Graham Willcox is a director and editor of short films, music videos and TV commercials. His current work includes the music video "Unpure Christian Offering" for Kenji Siratori & Die Elektrischen and the film series "Black Ball". His video for "Wester!" was influenced by his frequent photographic wanderings in urban parks around the country. He lives in San Francisco.
On the site you can watch some of the music videos commissioned for the music, download a couple tracks for free and buy the CD if you want.
http://www.agentsdelfuturo.com/
"A night of music videos for the music of Agents Del Futuro"
Time:9:20PM Monday, October 19th
Location:Cafe Revolution
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Wai'a and the Xavante World is a documentary that shows the Xavante (indigenous population of central Brazil) ritual called Wai'a, when the young are prepared to become shamans, healers or visionaries. It is a ritual done for the sake of the spirits of nature, to thank for the animals and children the spirits bring to ...the community, while at the same time preparing the young for their future roles.
Introduction and Q&A with director/anthropologist Rodrigo Guimaraes.
Documentary about the Indigenous Xavante ritual called Waia'a' , when the youth is prepared to become shamans, healers or visionaries.
Time:9:00PM Monday, October 12th
Location:Cafe Revolution
Cinema Revolution !TONIGHT! Jules et Jim (1962). Directed by François Truffaut. With Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre. Decades of a love triangle.
www.youtube.com
French actress Jeanne Moreau singing 'Le Tourbillon' in François Truffaut's film 'Jules et Jim'. The lyrics is written by Cyrus Bassiak. The clip has English subs. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055032/
Cinema Revolution "as her visa expires, two lovers from different nations are separated. a series of love reminders from afar."
Emma Oooh...Monday cinema ~ splendid idea! Thanks for the invite, Rita! Looking forward to attend your screenings one of these days...maybe soon!
Christopher Bernard Hello, This is a great idea - and happening at one of my favorite cafes :) A fascinating lineup last Monday, with a wonderful hostess, and enticing programs to come. A suggestion: add popcorn to the menu? Best of luck!
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"Madalien the Small" and a series of "Neurotique".
A few write ups from SF weekly:
"Best New Silent Filmmaker
Nara Denning
http://www.myspace.com/naradenning
We're still excited about Nara Denning, even though it's been months since we first saw her dense and glossy films. A finalist in SF Weekly's Masterminds contest earl...ier this year, she reminds us of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin (best known for The Saddest Music in the World) for her use of the silent-film aesthetic, but Denning has her own intense, lovely vision, often mapped onto the Mission District. Black-and-white film, high-tilted angles, soft focus, and a genius ear for music characterize her work. Our favorite is Madalien the Small, which tells the dreamlike story of a tiny woman with big desires. Its visual effects are gorgeous and masterful; they look expensive, but she assures us they are not. Bizarrely, very few people have heard of Nara Denning, but we predict that will change this year."
"Nara Denning is the girl version of Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin; her antique aesthetic is mixed with a real gift for storytelling and some tech genius. Her silent films show off San Francisco in all its blackshadowed glory, buildings tilted impossibly and neon signs glowing from every corner. Shadows and reflections are specialties, often digitally enhanced but never corny. She's obviously a fan of German Expressionism, but not a servant of it - we like the way she plays with intertitles.
She also draws from an interesting pool of local talent, notably composer Stoo Odom, whose original scores help hold her silent narratives together."
"Black-and-white film, high-tilted angles, soft focus, and a genius ear for music"
Time:8:30PM Monday, September 7th
Location:Revolution Cafe
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Feminale
Short Silent films 2000-2009 by Kat Eiswald
"The Story of Adios Nonino" (4 min bw, text)
"2WMN" (6 min, color)
"Body & Soul" (6 min, color)
"Lulu's Big Date" (7 min, color)
"Anima Attraction" (6 min, color)
"The Perfect Man" (12 min, color)
"Solitude of Passio...n" (8 min,dv color/bw)
short intermission
Maschile
Richard Shpuntoff (New York)
"The Hunts Point Trilogy"
"as i went out one morning..." (9 min bw, 16mm, no sound)
"El Grand 97 " (12 min bw, 16mm, no sound)
"Morning Dance" (6 min bw, 16mm, sound)
Arthur Aviles (New York)
"This Pleasant and Grateful Asylum" (8 Min color, Video)
an evening of SILENT CINEMA at Revolution Cafe
Time:8:45PM Monday, August 24th
Location:Revolution Cafe
