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RUDE MECHS AND CINEMAKER COOP
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OFFCENTER:ONSCREEN

OffCenter:OnScreen comes back with a bang this year, featuring bi-monthly screenings thematically linked to the Rude Mechs theatrical season. If you liked BIG LOVE, you won’t want miss the November screening of marriage and bonding films from filmmakers like Stan Brakhage and Hollis Framption. Leading up to THROWS LIKE A GIRL, the January screening will feature films dealing with genderbending and female sensuality. In March, we’ll be teasing towards THE MARFA PROJECT with a series of Road Movies. And just for grins, the May screening will take over the Off Center with two exciting film installations.

All screenings take place at The Off Center and tickets are a mere $5, sold at the door the night of the screening only.

2001/2002 SCHEDULE

Monday, November 19, 2001 - Marriage/Bonding
Stan Brakhage "Wedlock House: An Intercourse"
Scott Bartlett "Lovemaking"
Rudy Burckhardt "In Bed"
Hollis Frampton "Works & Days"

Monday, January 28, 2002 - Genderbending/Feminism/Female Sensuality
featuring some of the premiere contemporary avant-garde filmmakers from the 80’s and 90’s
Scott Stark "Noema"
Gunvor Nelson "Schmeerguntz"
Greta Snider "Our Gay Brothers"
Peter Tcherkassky "Tabula Rasa"

Monday, March 18, 2002 - Road Movies
Bill Brown "Confederate Park"
Bruce Conner "Looking for Mushrooms" (revised 1996 version)
Nathaniel Dorsky "17 Reasons Why"
David Rimmer "Real Italian Pizza"

Monday, May 6, 2002 - Film Installations
Barbara Rubin "Christmas on Earth"
Projection, where one image is 1/3 the size of the other and superimposed upon it. The projectionist is asked to play with color changes by holding colored filters in front of the lens of one or the other projector, or both. As the film goes on, image after image, the most private territories of the body are laid open for us, now an abstracted landscape; the first shock changes into silence, then is transposed into amazement. Made when the filmmaker was 18.

Malcolm LeGrice "Castle One"
The most evident feature of this movie is that it is projected alongside a bare flashing light bulb which has itself been filmed and appears within the movie. The major portion of the film, however, is composed of second hand images which are largely drawn from T.V documentary of an unspectacular kind, but which thematically are concerned with the 'surface' of the industrial institution and political world. The sound is a 'scramble'of the various commentaries, music and dialogue of the collaged film which gradually become identified with their respective images during the course of the film.

For tickets or information please call 512-476-RUDE or visit our tickets page.
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