Light Industry

Crossroads: A Tribute to Bruce Conner

Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 8pm
55 33rd Street, 3rd Floor
Brooklyn, New York

The passing of Bruce Conner in July of this year allowed for reflection on his influence, which proves substantial and pervasive as we continue through the first years of the 21st century. In the expansion of American experimental filmmaking in the 1950s and 60s, Conner pushed the emerging practice of re-editing found footage to new heights of wit and profundity with films like A Movie (1958), Cosmic Ray (1962) and Report (1967), continuing his mastery of the idiom in subsequent years with works such as Crossroads (1976), which will undoubtedly stand as one of the definitive artistic statements of the nuclear age. Alongside Kenneth Anger and Andy Warhol, Conner also served as one of the major innovators in conjoining art and pop music, making Breakaway (1966) with then-girl-group singer Toni Basil, and collaborating with Devo, David Byrne and Brian Eno. Today, Conner¹s accomplishments reverberate throughout contemporary creative culture, from the popular practice of internet mash-ups to the predominance of found-footage re-use in today¹s 16mm filmmaking, assemblage and collage in gallery spaces, and media remixing in the electronic arts.
 
To honor his legacy, Light Industry invited an intergenerational roster of 25 artists from multiple disciplines to create and present works inspired by and in tribute of Conner.

Participating artists: Peggy Ahwesh, Animal Charm, Craig Baldwin, Stephanie Barber, Dara Birnbaum, Roger Beebe, John Michael Boling, Bryan Boyce, Martha Colburn, Bradley Eros, Kevin Everson, Ernie Gehr, Michael Gitlin and Jacqueline Goss, Ken Jacobs, Kent Lambert, Oliver Laric, Jeanne Liotta, Eileen Maxson, Jenny Perlin, Luther Price, Michael Robinson, Keith Sanborn, Sylvia Schedelbauer, Deborah Stratman, Aaron Valdez

Tickets - $6, available at door. Part of the evening's proceeds will go to benefit Anthology Film Archives's preservation of Bruce Conner's films.

builds a sustainable community in a context that integrates cultural and industrial production.

Artists' Television Access celebrates independentand underground film with the 3rd ATA Film and Video Festival on October 2, 3& 4, 2008.

On Thursday, October 2, the festival opens with Craig Baldwin's latest feature,Mock Up On Mu. Don't miss the intro act by Mu-vie star, Stoney Burke as JohnMcTaint (think McCain).

On Friday and Saturday, October 3 & 4, the festival will showcase 20 shortfilms that run the cinematic gamut – from former SF rocker Jibz Cameron'smercurial "The Quiet Storm" and the controversial "Visions of Wasted Time," byNeil Ira Needleman, to the gorgeous flicker of Paul Clipson's "Sphinx on theSeine" and Telemach Wiesinger's "3x1."

In addition to the screenings, the work of 11 experimental film and videoartists will be displayed as installations throughout the gallery during thefestival and in the ATA Window in October.

ATA is at 992 Valenciaat 21st Street. Doors openat 7:30pm every night. Screeningsstart at 8pm. Tickets are $10.Limited amount available online.

For complete information, including interviews of the filmmakers visit http://festival.atasite.org/2008

This fall, ISSUE Project Room will present “Women’s Experimental” an
historical survey of experimental films and videos made by women in the
United States from 1940 to the present. The series will run for three
consecutive evenings, at 8 p.m., Oct. 1-3, at ISSUE Project Room on the
3rd floor of (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd Street in the Gowanus
neighborhood of Brooklyn. Admission for each evening is $10.

The first screening, on Wed., Oct. 1, will include films from the
1940s through the 1970s selected by guest curator M.M. Serra, filmmaker
and director of the Film-Maker’s Cooperative. On Thurs., Oct. 2, the
program will include videos from the late 70s through the early 90s
culled by Rebecca Cleman Director of Distribution of Electronic Arts
Intermix. The series will culminate on Fri., Oct. 3, with film and
video work from the 1990s through the present, selected by Marie
Losier, filmmaker and film programmer at FIAF and Ocularis.

A new collaborative media performance presented by Pan:

September, 12 2008 - 8pm - London

On Insects: or Why Do Humans Exist?

A media collaboration with Raymond Salvatore Harmon + Dave Phillips

with Mlhest, Lee Gamble, Mark Durgan

Divus Gallery Unit 30,
30 - 37 Cremer Street, London