AN EVENING WITH LIGHT IN THE ATTIC RECORDS
Approx. 90 min.

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 – 8:00PM & 10:00 PM

Spectacle is beyond thrilled to team up with the incomparable reissue record label Light In The Attic Records for an evening of rare and wonderful works!

Highlights include a collection of original short docs on Light In The Attic artists Donnie and Joe Emerson, National Wake, and Jim Sullivan- PLUS surprise shorts and music videos!

We’ll cap off the festivities off with an exclusive screening of the cult favorite film Cowboy In Sweden featuring the legendary Lee Hazlewood! The film- originally a 1970 Swedish TV special- is now fully restored and remastered in HD and plucked directly from LITA’s lavish box set There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving, a box set commemorating the complete legacy of Lee Hazlewood Industries from 1966-1971.

“…the film must have been exceedingly surreal, since the record exists in its own space and time. At its core, it’s a collection of country and cowboy tunes, but the production is cinematic and psychedelic, creating a druggy, discombobulated sound like no other. This is mind-altering music — the combination of country song structures, Hazlewood’s deep baritone, the sweet voices of Nina Lizell and Suzi Jane Hokom, rolling acoustic guitars, ominous strings, harpsichords and flutes, eerie pianos, and endless echo is stranger than outright avant-garde music…” –Stephen Thomas Erlewine, allmusic.com

ONE NIGHT ONLY! FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
SATURDAY, APRIL 19 – 7:30 PM

Artist and experimental filmmaker Kelly Spivey recombines layers of found footage and original material through contact and optical-printing to create rhythmic, complex and exquisitely hand-crafted films. For this one-night-only special event, Spivey will present her work in-person on 16mm, super8mm and video.

Spivey’s careful gathering of found imagery and sounds, her stop-motion and paper cut-out animations, and her meticulously constructed loop-based soundtracks feel like journeys through the heart of collage itself. Her films explore themes like class, gender roles and science, but by constantly redirecting our attention back to film’s physicality and textural weight, they also thoughtfully contemplate filmic images, in general, about class, gender roles and science, among other things. The feeling of simultaneity is thrilling and strikingly evocative.

STEIN’S COW
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2000
USA, 3 min, super 8mm

Stein’s Cow is a short experimental animated film using Xerox cut-outs. Stein’s Cow is a visual play on the usage of the word “cow” in Gertrude Stein’s love poetry. Theorists believe Stein used the word “cow” symbolically in place of the word “orgasm” in her writing. Was this an attempt at hiding the lesbionic nature of her writings, or a playful, inventive re-assignment for the somewhat medical sounding “orgasm?”

WHY YOU WERE BORN
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2001
USA, 6 min, super 8mm

A Kodachrome super 8 animation that utilizes found images delicately cut from magazines from the 1940s-70s. A hand-held camera creates agitation and a frenetic frame speed penetrates women’s roles shown in advertising, shattering them and offering humorous feminist solutions.

KEEP UP WITH MEDICINE
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2001
USA, 3 min, super 8mm

Animating vintage advertising images cut from magazines, this film makes a connection between gender roles, societal pressures and our need medicate. Getting shots, popping pills, and curing ills are practices examined and put under the micro-lens of my super 8mm camera. The results of this medical exam are alternative routes to health and wellbeing.

WHAT IF THE WORLD LOVED CELLULITE?
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2000
USA, 6 min, super 8mm

Join a familiar icon in a world where the beauty ideal has taken a turn. Dimpled thighs and rounded bellies are what this doll is after. How will she attain her desired physique? What’s a skinny girl to do? Find out how this broad finds happiness in this animated short originally shot on super 8 kodachrome.

POOR WHITE TRASH GIRL: CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2003
USA, 6 min, 16mm

A semi-autobiographical animation based on the life of a poor white girl who lives amidst Fisher Price Little People.

ME, MYSELF & I
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2003
USA, 3 min, 16mm

Using paper dolls, magazine cutouts, and vintage valentines, this film plays with ideas of metamorphoses, gender variance, narcissism, and, somewhat subliminally, President George W. Bush.

MAKE THEM JUMP
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2009
USA, 11 min, 16mm

Optically printed from snippets of discarded educational films including a bullfrog-jumping contest, a story of a child in a Harlem project who finds an abandoned duck, and a girl whose best friend is a cow. Repetition, time and sound manipulation, and not least of all – humor, all reside within the film frames of this project. Inspired by the Rachel Carson quote: “It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility,” the film digs frame-by-re-photographed-frame for the underlying, yet now tenuous beauty in nature and our awkward, yet increasingly poignant relationship with animals.

A VISUAL GUIDE TO PHYSICAL EXAMINATION
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2011
USA, 6 min, 16mm

Contact printed using an amateur machine, the Uhler Cine Printer, this film was created using spliced loops of my own camera original film mixed in with found footage film that describes how to give a breast exam. The audio was also printed from found optical sound loops. All of this footage was handprocessed and solarized. The result is a semi-horror-meditation on the gender binary and negative/positive space.

FISH UNDER DELANCEY
Dir. Kelly Spivey, 2006
USA, 26 min, 16MM

“Traveling from Flushing to Manhattan via the subway, as well as throughout NYC, I became entranced by the tile murals that line many subway platforms. The tunneling of the subways through bedrock and beneath the city, the people who ride the subway, the sound of a screeching train, and the slogan, “If you see something, say something” inspired this stop-motion, eavesdropping, dreamlike journey film. The film also follows the poet and writer Eileen Myles on parts of the journey.”

Individual film descriptions courtesy of Kelly Spivey.

CONCERNING VIOLENCE: NINE SCENES FROM THE ANTI-IMPERIALISTIC SELF-DEFENSE
Dir: Göran Olsson, 2013
Sweden, Finland, Denmark, US, 85 min.

ONE NIGHT ONLY! SPECIAL PREVIEW SCREENING FOR SPECTACLE MEMBERS!
TUESDAY, MARCH 11 
With assistant director Sophie Vukovic in attendance for a Q&A!

Franz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth was published in France a month after his death in 1961, in the final year of the Algerian struggle for independence from France. In it, he diagnosed the condition of the colonized peoples of the Third World as an existence shaped by the continuous and systematic violence of colonial administrations, European settlers, and global capitalism, which exercise their violence through their police, military, and judicial apparatuses. Göran Olsson, the Swedish found-footage documentarian who made The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 three years ago, has created a film adaptation of Fanon’s book, using archival footage from the vaults of various Scandinavian television stations. Lauryn Hill reads selections from the first section of The Wretched of the Earth over footage gathered during the national liberation struggles in Angola, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Burkina Faso in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s. The images are used to illustrate Fanon’s theses about the nature of colonialism, such as his definition of it as a primordial violence that will only yield when confronted with greater violence: “this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.”

Tuesday March 11, Spectacle is proud to welcome the film’s assistant director Sophie Vukovic, who will introduce an exclusive preview screening of CONCERNING VIOLENCE and answer questions from the audience.

SUNDAY MARCH 9 – ONE NIGHT ONLY – 8:30 PM

Spectacle Theater and Unseen Worlds present a rare, intimate audiovisual performance by composer Carl Stone and artist Jonathon Rosen. Experience the evocative, inspired practices of Stone and Rosen up close and personal in a risky improvisational setting within the cozy bare-bones Spectacle vibe.

Carl Stone is internationally considered a pioneer in live computer music. In addition to widespread recognition in new music and media arts circles, his acclaimed electro-acoustic compositions have run through film, choreography, radio, theater, and all streams in between. Collaborators have included Nels Cline, Min Xiao-Fen, z’ev, Aki Takahashi, and Otomo Yoshihide. He is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University, Japan.

Jonathon Rosen’s award-winning work in static and moving pictures have appeared everywhere from The New York Times and Popular Science, to work for The Residents, Tim Burton’s SLEEPY HOLLOW, the PS1 ANIMATIONS show, as well as videos for and performances with Tom Recchion of the legendary Los Angeles Free Music Society. His books INTESTINAL FORTITUDE and THE BIRTH OF MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS are part of the permanent collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rosen teaches in the undergraduate illustration, cartooning & MFA Visual Narrative Departments of the School of the Visual Arts, NYC.

This is their first collaboration outside of LA’s famed Anti-Club, where they played together in the 1980’s.

Unseen Worlds is a Brooklyn-based record label releasing quality editions of unheralded and revolutionary avant garde music, including the work of Laurie Spiegel, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, and Lubomyr Melnyk.

http://www.sukothai.com/
http://jrosen.org/
http://www.unseenworlds.net/

ONE NIGHT ONLY!
SUNDAY, MARCH 2 – 8:00 PM

Spectacle is proud to present the best of the La Guarimba International Film Festival!

La Guarimba International Film Festival is a socio-cultural project in Amantea, a small town in the south of Italy.
The festival was created by a group of artists from different places of the world who believe in the benefit of working together for others. Thanks to this we had cleaned and reopened the Arena Sicoli, an old outdoor movie theater with 900 seats, to show the official selection.

The Festival was born to bring the cinema to the people and the people to the cinema, with the aim of giving back the magic of the cinematography to the town’s inhabitants, to spread the work of local and international filmmakers and also to foster the culture of Calabria.

AND NOW the festival is coming to THE SPECTACLE!

THE PROGRAM (75 min.):

Trailer of #AboutTheResistance, the documentary about the festival, and about cinema as an act of resistance.

EMILIO
Dir. Angelo Cretella, 2013
Italy, 15 min.

Emilio, a guy as good as his 200kg, frequently travels, on his tiny scooter, the country roads leading to the farm where the prostitute Alida resides.

COME TO VENICE
Dir. Benedetta Panisson, 2012
Italy, 20 min.

A scream, but more on the silent side. It’s the voice of Venetians, of those who live the city, of its waterways, of its sea.

OH WILLY…
Dir. Emma De Swaef and Marc James Roels, 2011
Belgium, 17 min.

Forced to return to his naturist roots, Willy bungles his way into noble savagery.

DREAMING APECAR
Dir. Dario Samuele Leone, 2012
Italy, 20 min.

Caterina is a 45 year old Italian woman who has been without a job for months, so she accepts work as a caregiver for Gheorghe, an elderly, lively Romanian stuck in a wheelchair.