Premiere of When We Stop Counting

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Please join us at the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center on October 26th at 7 PM for the premiere of When We Stop Counting.



Students and directors Brent Meier and Elisabeth Reinkordt will be answering questions following the screening.

The film will also be premiering in Crete at Doane College's Heckman Auditorium on Thursday, October 28th, also at 7 PM.

Destruction Myth

I ordered this today. You should too, whether you care about anything or nothing.

This is exciting

Ben Russell is on Vimeo.

Daumë from Ben Russell on Vimeo.

(7:00, 16mm, color/B/W, sound, 2000)

“One of the strangest films I have ever seen; its characters come and go as if they’re ‘primitives’ posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographer’s controlling eye.” - Fred Camper, Chicago Reader

That's the first film of his I ever saw, back in 2003 in my first 16mm film class with Leslie Thornton.

The Red and the Blue Gods from Ben Russell on Vimeo.

(8:00, 16mm, live sound, 2005)

An ethnographic field report in which the Anthropologist describes the mythic creation of an unnamed ‘sun-scraping structure’ through the ritualized actions of the Red and the Blue Gods.

Performed with live narration and sound effects over a pre-recorded soundscape.

This one, he had in the Movies with Live Soundtracks that played in the very very crowded upstairs of some building at RISD that I forget the name of. That was a great show.

I could embed all of his work here, but that would be annoying. Just go over to his Vimeo page and enjoy.

VOTE, DAMMIT

Tuesday, May 5th. Local election day. Go fill out a ballot.

Love Power Dearland

It was great to see Elvis Perkins in Dearland again. They're in Omaha on Wednesday; I'd consider that a call to action.

Reminder: Vote today!

City primaries in Lincoln & Omaha. Here's your Lancaster County slate card.

Home Grown Film Festival

"Homegrown" Film Festival
@ the Bourbon Theatre 1415 'O' Street - April 3rd, 9pm
Featuring local cinema arts on the big screen.

Free Admission-Free Popcorn

Playlist

"The Girl Who Could Run 600 Miles Per Hour" ~20mins

Directed by: Mark Thimijan

"I Want You To Know Something That Is True" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Neighbors" ~5mins

Directed by: Aaron Holmes

"Broken Circle" ~20mins

Directed by: Aaron Sawyer

"Red Means Danger" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Creation Myth" ~5mins

&

Triptych- 1."Little Dances", 2."Dallas", 3."Las Golondrinas" ~10mins

Directed by: Elisabeth Reinkordt

"Orange Fuzzy" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"M.O.N.S.T.E.R.S." ~15mins

Directed by: Robby Defrain

"Untitled" ~5mins

Directed by: Diane Nelson & Nate Young"

"Nice" ~2mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

"Treasure House" ~10mins

Directed by: Joe Younglove & Jacob Cammack

"Strange Medicine" ~10mins

Directed by: David S. Ozinga

"Jakefomercial" ~5mins

Directed by: Jake Gillespie

Photo equipment for sale

There is a Bogen enlarger at the Salvation Army at 48th & Leighton going for $30. It has the lens, but no contrast grading plates. Looked to be in decent shape, though, and the bellows worked fine, no apparent light leaks. I already have an enlarger, so go pick it up if you're in the market!


(image from wikimedia)

Read This

It's over tomorrow. A Harper's Index retrospective of the Bush years.

TIE Returns to the Ross

The fantastically curated TIE collection is returning to the Ross this Wednesday & Thursday. The past two years, Lincoln has been blessed with great programs and presentation from Christopher May, TIE's curator. This year should be no exception:

Since 2000, the internationally-based TIE festival has been a leading champion of artists still working in the medium of film, with a particular focus on both new and historical avant-garde cinema. TIE returns to UNL with two new programs specifically selected for The Ross by TIE founder/director Christopher May. The exhibition features an eclectic range of experimental films that illuminate the continuing vitality and beauty of celluloid, while subtle and at times obvious philosophical and thematic curatorial gestures conduct the flow of the programs. Both shows include highlights from TIE's 2008 international festivals, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Paonia, Colorado.

The TIE festival will feature two programs.
PROGRAM 1 will be shown on Wednesday, January 14 - 7:00pm
PROGRAM 2 will be shown on Thursday, January 15 - 7:00pm

Come join me. I'll be going to both, if I can help it. Oh, and since you're going to be stopping by the Ross, you should also probably find time to see Slumdog Millionaire, darling of the Golden Globes, and Synecdoche, NY, the latest adventure into Charlie Kaufman's brain.

...

I'm in McCook for work, teaching video editing to a group of 20-some 4th graders through high school seniors. Should be an adventure.

More Cabinetting

So my former boss is being suggested as a candidate for Secretary of Education in the Obama Administration. I urge you to look into the matter, and write a few words in support, if you agree. Perhaps I'll bloviate on the subject a little more later....

NYTimes.com: Obama's 'Secretary of Food'?

Obama has name-dropped Michael Pollan....sign this petition!

OPINION | December 11, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist: Obama's 'Secretary of Food'?
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

When Barack Obama chooses his agriculture secretary, we need a bold reformer in a position renamed “secretary of food.”

muxtape

the trouble with iTunes/iPod playlists is how long they get. we were limited by the length of tape. oh well. here's what i'm listening to right now. lots of throwbacks (fall is a nostalgic season) and still exploring the tremendous library i inherited when i bought josh lux's iPod. i'll make you a cd if you want.

1. untitled - interpol
2. smile - the jayhawks
3. the death of ferdinand de saussure - the magnetic fields
4. this year - the mountain goats
5. in a manner of speaking - nouvelle vague
6. infinity girl - stereolab
7. the outer banks - the album leaf
8. like foxes through fences - american analog set
9. let's go driving - barzin
10. sunday morning - margo guryan
11. kid for today - boards of canada
12. hora decubitus - charles mingus
13. the healer - erykah badu
14. i'm on fire - chromatics
15. let it all pass - dead meadow
16. the sounds and the times - toshack highway
17. still suspicion holds you tight - black rebel motorcycle club
18. jealous love - the golden age
19. the box - eastern conference champions
20. lime kiln - hrsta
21. santa maria da feira - devendra banhart
22. preto, cor preta - jorge aragão
23. suzanne - françois hardy
24. heaven - talking heads
25. late night stranger - outlaw con bandana
26. sleepy california - her space holiday
27. glosoli - sigur rós
28. oh! sweet nuthin' - the velvet underground

Dancing

Busta Rhymes has a new hit song/dance, "Arab Money." You should probably learn about it from these guys, though.

Alash @ the Mill

Those of you in Lincoln should really be attending one of the two Alash concerts at the Sheldon tomorrow.

These Tuvan throat singers were performing on Live from the Mill this morning when I went there to meet Avishay. Here's a clip from the last time they were on NET Radio.

And here, today. Please note the horsehead on the stringed instruments.

this is neat...

practice your vocabulary and donate rice through the UN World Food Program

One Song Sunday

From Ande:

OK. It's time to start digging out your old banjos, guitars, bowls, kick drums, bongos, clapping hands, nintendos, kazoos, screams, televisions, cats, washtub basses, art, dolphins, crazy eyes, tds, feet, and anything that you might like to make sound and music with. One Song Sunday is upon us. June 1st at Box Awesome ... Starting at Noon the sound will begin and will not end until 1am...ultimate patience in collaboration. Please Join Us!

There is No Excuse Called Staying Home

I just came back from seeing Tatsuya Nakatani perform with Luke Polipnick and Chris Bates at the Box. Holy wow.


Tatsuya Nakatani w/Luke Polipnick and Chris Bates @ Box Awesome 4-10-08 from nocoastfilms on Vimeo.

Friday night.

Either you are going to see

Tatsuya Nakatani

at Jones Coffee (11th & H) from 8-10;

or you are going to see a fine young singer, in her final recital before moving on to graduate programs elsewhere,

Anna DeGraff

at Westbrook Recital Hall (12th & R) at 8:45.

You Should Probably Be Reading....

Octopus Magazine #10 instead of my blog. Well, at least for now.

This is just a partial screenshot of the 8 x 10 grid of poets representin':

Super Saturday

Ok silly. I know Super Tuesday isn't over yet, but you better get your booty to a Nebraska caucus site this Saturday to vote.

Lancaster County is registering voters at 5:15 PM (any resident can register/switch party at the site) and caucusing at 6:00 PM. Find your location.

Douglas County is registering voters at 9:15 AM and caucusing at 10:00 AM. Find your site here.



GOBAMA!!!!!!!!!