Synthetic Cinema #3 Light, Memory and Place

Sat, Mar 4
8:30 PM
$10.00 RSVP(Limited Seating)

On Saturday, March 4th at 8:30PM Oddball Films presents "Synthetic
Cinema #3 Light, Memory and Place", a screening of independent and
experimental films that explore concepts of light, memory and place
in cinema. The program will screen at Oddball Films, 275 Capp St in
San Francisco Admission is $10.00 Limited Seating RSVP Preferred.
RVSP at: (preferred) or contact the archive at
415.558.8117. You will be contacted ONLY if the show is sold out.

Featured films include Chris Marker's brilliant space/time
apocalyptic opus "La Jetee", David LeBrun's pulsating animated
version of the Tibetan book of the Dead "Tanka"(1976), Wladyslaw
Slesicki's non narrative portrait of Eastern European nomadic
"Gypsies"(1973), the unintentionally comic "Home Sweet Mobile
Home"(1954), Jim Henson's(of "Muppets" fame) early independent
surrealistic/absurdist "Timepiece"(1965), Andy Warhol's 1968
interview segment at the Rhode Island School of Design "I Can See the
Stars" and other shorts.

"La Jetee"(1962, B+W)
After a global holocaust, humanity's hopes for survival hinge on time-
travel experiments conducted upon a man whose dreams reveal a clarion
recall of a defining moment in his childhood when he witnessed a
murder. The narrative, revealed through a montage of still images
creates a tight loop of incident in which the protagonist
simultaneously realizes his past, present, and future. More a human
story than sci-fi, densely layered and deeply effecting, "La Jetee"
is evolutionary and enigmatic cinema at it's most sublime.

"The most haunting sci-fi film ever made."
-- Jon Niccum, LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD

"Chris Marker, the most poetic and original of documentarists"
-- Derek Malcolm, The Guardian


Read this Rare Interview with Chris Marker:
www.filmlinc.com/fcm/5-6-2003/markerint.htm


Tanka (1976, color)
Produced and directed by David Lebrun; original score by Ashish Khan
(sarod), Buddy Arnold (saxophone, clarinet, flute), Pranesh Khan
(tablas) and Francisco Lupica (percussion).
Tanka means, literally, "a thing rolled up". Tanka, photographed from
Tibetan scroll paintings of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, is
a cyclical vision of ancient gods and demons, an animated journey
through the image world of the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

"With his dazzling TANKA David Lebrun has filmed a series of Tibetan
paintings of mythological subjects and then programmed his footage
into an optical printer to create the illusion of animation. The
dazzling, vibrantly colored result is a series of dancing gods, wild
revels, raging fires and sea battles between monsters." -- Kevin
Thomas, Los Angeles Times

"TANKA is brilliantly powered by the insight that Tibetan religious
paintings are intended to be perceived not as in repose but as in
constant movement. Lebrun has created the illusion of motion in this
painted world. The water and flowers seem to dip and sway, the birds
to fly, and the god to move his arms sinuously." -- Edgar Daniel,
American Film

"An extraordinary film." -- Melinda Wortz, Art News

"Time Piece" (1965, Color) "Muppets" creator Jim Henson's bizarre and
ironic commentary on the age old "rat race" way of life as seen
through the eyes of a hospitalized man.

"Gypsies" (1973, B+W)
Polish filmmaker Wladyslaw Slesicki's non-narrative verite portrait
of a nomadic Gypsy caravan
traveling through Europe in the early 1970s.

"Home Sweet Mobile Home" (1956, B+W), Unintentionally humorous mobile
home sales story
showcases a new class of American homeowners.

"I Can See the Stars" (1968, B+W) Andy Warhol at the Rhode Island
School of Design with Gerard Melanga and his group, "The Exploding
Plastic Inevitable" "sees the stars" as he spoofs the interviewer
with his pop culture vision.

Venue:

Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco
415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com

Off Mission between 17th and 18th, Mission and South Van Ness(closer
to 18th St.)

Additional Info:

415-558-8117
www.oddballfilm.com