SHOW#1

Brent Green w/ music by Sin Ropas                                            Xander Marro (Dirt Palace / Providence, RI)                                      Jo Dery (ex-Fort Thunder / Providence, RI)                                     and a special puppet show by                                                       Penelope Hillfrau (Florence, Italy)                             

FRIDAY September 21st
8:00pm
$6.00
@Vox Populi Gallery
319 A. North 11th St. 3rd floor
(between Vine and Callowhill)                                                               

                                                                                                         Animator and Small Change alumni, Brent Green will be coming back to town with his trademark delicate hand drawn animations and a musical score performed live by Sin Ropas. Sin Ropas is a couple of ex-Califone members with creaky harmoniums and fiddles.

Brent Green's hand-made animated films have screened at Sundance, the Getty Museum, the Warhol Museum and all kinds of other places. The NY Times has called his work "some of the most original animations we have seen in years." Brent will screen all of his films with live narrations and
improvised soundtracks by Brent and Sin Ropas.

Check out a sneak preview of Brent Green's film "Carlin": HERE

We'll also have performances by ex-Fort Thunder artists      Xander Marro and Jo Dery from Providence, Rhode Island, who'll be showing their films and videos accompanied by live musical soundtracks and narrations. Expect loud drums, puppet films, and amazingness. If you missed them last time with us you get one more chance!    
                                                                                                                Our friends at Puppet Uprising are also teaming up with us to bring you a very special puppet performance by Penelope Hillfrau who is coming all the way from Florence, Italy.

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SHOW#2

ROGER BEEBE: in person! with a collection of films on 16mm, super 8mm, and video!

SATURDAY September 22nd
9:00pm
$5.00
@Space 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd floor                                               

"[Beebe’s films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America."        --David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly

"Beebe's work is goofy, startling, and important."                  --Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore

Roger will be teaching a 16mm hand-manipulation workshop at Scribe on SUNDAY September 23rd. Don't miss out! Email Scribeto reserve as spot!

Roger Beebe has screened his films around the globe at such unlikely venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron in Times Square as well as more traditional venues such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Pacific Film Archive in addition to numerous festivals, among them Sundance, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, and New York Underground.  He has won dozens of awards including a 2006 Individual Artist Grant from the State of Florida and Best Experimental Film at the 2006 Chicago Underground Film Festival. 

TB TX DANCE
2006, 16MM, 2 min. 30 sec.)
A cameraless film made in a balck & white laser printer with an optical soundtrack made of dots of varying sizes provides the backdrop for revisiting Toni Basil’s appearance in Bruce Conner’s 1968 film “Breakaway.”

S A V E 
2006, 16mm, 5 min.
IA study of a disused gas station provides the occasion for a reflection on our interest in the decaying monuments of mom & pop capitalism. "An elegant, elegiac film…The "SAVE" sign acquires the dignity one ordinarily would assign to an old poplar tree, struggling for life against the ravages of time and the elements." --David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly

(rock/hard place) 
2005, 16mm, 6 min. 30 sec.
Two massive structures—one manmade, the other natural—sit on opposite ends of a causeway in Morro Bay, California, waiting for someone to put them in the same frame.

One Nation under Tommy 
2004, DVD installation/digital video, 15 min
The telephone game (a.k.a. “grapevine”) gets a new twist as scriptwriters and filmmakers take turns attempting to faithfully reproduce a cynically patriotic Tommy Hilfiger commercial.

Famous Irish Americans 
2003, digital video, 8 min.
A hyperflat exploration of the limitations of our binary thinking about race, featuring appearances by stars of sport & screen. "There just aren't enough films out there like Roger Beebe's 'Famous Irish Americans,' a graphic lecture insisting that black celebrities with Irish last names really are Irish."     --Kimberly Chun, SF Bay Guardian

Composition in Red & Yellow 
2002, super 8, 2 min. 30 sec.
A strange homage to Mondrian, featuring McDonald’s restaurants stretching from Gainesville, FL to Oakland, CA, culminating in an appearance by every McD’s in the East Bay. "Astoundingly hilarious" --Matthew Holota, Artvoice (Buffalo)

A Woman, A Mirror 
2001, 16mm, 15 min.
A anti-dance film dance film about gender and technology and the “technologies of gender.  “Essential viewing for anyone interested in true visual experimentation.”  --John Citrone, Folio Weekly

The Strip Mall Trilogy 
2001, super 8, 9 min.
A look straight into the heart of the most postmodern of architectural forms, the strip mall, shot in a mile-long parking lot that could be Anywhere, USA.  “He has actually managed to bust apart the mind-controlling code of relentlessly commercial space and reconfigure it into a landscape of beautiful colors and forms. It is a remarkable piece of Super 8 alchemy."  --David Finkelstein, Film Threat