Artists' Television Access

BRIAN DARR IN PERSON: OPUS (n)ONE + WARM SPELLS: MATING RITES +

Comes now our first Live A/V show of the season, a hybrid program that carries over the record-store theme from last Sat., but blows up the multi-media aspect into a delirious circus of audiovisual delights. Long-lost critic Brian Darr is back in his SF hometown for one week only, so now is thee time to experience his para-cinematic sound-and-image celebration of the unlikeliest record label of the late 20^th Century..a remote Maine launching pad for obscure avant garde composers, best remembered for its wild psychedelic covers. The second half belongs to J. Lee‘s Warm Spells, a 6-person A/V ensemble using overhead projectors, rear-projection, shadow puppets, and live musical performance, to enact their Pan-Galactic Mating Rites. Opening are playful riffs from lo-fi intermedia, including glasses-less 3-D, jug-whistling, the Trololo Man, and Len Lye‘s kinetic sculpture. $12

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LYNNE SACHS + SCHEDELBAUER + KUC

We’ve assembled a godsmackin’ troika of the most superhumanly gifted women makers of our time, a truly fortuitous curatorial coup that coincides with Sachs‘ visit to theBay Area. She is showing a ½ hr. cut from her her new feature project, Every Contact Leaves a Trace, and fielding questions about her intentions and trajectories with this current long-form. AND: Old ATA comrade (relocated to Berlin) Sylvia Schedelbauer finally peeps back up with her 24-min. multi-layered portrait of her mother, also settled in Berlin (from Japan), an astounding feat of family-archive excavation (mostly from S8 color!) that is ever-so-meticulously ordered into a profoundly resonant, and revelatory montage. The third component of this collective debut comes from Kamila Kuc, the formerly London-based cine-artiste who has now moved to the Coast, Her Plot of Blue Sky.This jaw-dropping, never-before-seen penetration of Moroccan women’s society and sub-culture (Amazigh)–in fact enabling the women to use cameras(!)–gives voice to a huge marginalized population who are accustomed to being shuttled from forced marriage to prostitution to institutionalized old age dead-ends, by an oppressively patriarchal Arab state. $14

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