Vertical Pool and 911 presents: The Seattle premiere of UNDER A SHIPWRECKED MOON by Antero Alli ("Hysteria", "Tragos") Friday, June 13th 8pm $6 / $4 (911 members) An elderly Finnish man returns to the family he abandoned fifteen years after his son drowned in a shipwreck deep in the Bering Sea. On the morning of his family visit, he unexpectedly succumbs to a stroke and lapses into a deep coma where his consciousness drifts through memories, bizarre dreams and longings for a young woman who died over fifty years ago and now beckons him towards death. Meanwhile, his family is duly alerted and gathers around his bedside with their own stories, grievances, hopes and dreams. Will he join his long lost love or return to the family fold? Antero's fifth feature is his most ambitious and experimental to date, deliriously confusing the surreal and the real. Written & directed by Antero Alli. Soundtrack by Sylvi Alli. Produced by Vertical Pool. (DV, Super 8 & 16mm film). Filmmakers in person. More information - www.verticalpool.com

 

	911 presents: OPEN SCREENING Hosted by Greg D'Elia Monday, June 9th, 8pm $1 (Cheap!) Bring down your videos on VHS. Less than 10 minutes please, VHS only.

 

	911 presents: SCRABYLON Friday, June 20th 8pm $5 / $3 (911 members) Live from the 2001 World Scrabble Championships in Las Vegas it's Scrabylon! What was once a seemingly benign game played on kitchen tables everywhere has metastasized into an international juggernaut. Boggle? Jumble? They've got nothing on Scrabble! It's the king of scrambled word games - and quite worthy of a documentary. Scott Pederson¹s fascinating film both probes the obsessive depths of professional Scrabble players and shows hot, hot, hot Scrabble action! This real-life Best in Show is sure to captivate and entertain all.

 

	911 presents: DEUSING AND KLAHR Friday, June 27th 8pm $5 / $3 (911 members) Join us for an evening of spiritual contemplation with a possibility of spontaneous dancing as Seattle's coolest of the cool descend on 911 to rock out on the films of two of America's premiere animated filmmakers: James Duesing and Lewis Klahr. James Duesing is a big time professor in computer animation at Carnegie Mellon University and his movies have been exhibited in hundreds of International festivals and exhibitions, and nationally televised in the United States, Europe, Asia and Australia. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, an American Film Institute Fellowship, an Emmy Award, and a CINE Golden Eagle. Others who testify to his greatness include the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Goethe Memorial Museum (Tokyo), the University of California at Los Angeles Film Archive, and the Israel Museum. Tonight we'll see some of his shorts including: Law of Averages, Maxwell¹s Demon, Impetigo and Tugging the Worm. Lewis Klahr jams with a signature style that cannot be denied. Shadows, stillness, and staccato movements are married in an expressive language to produce experimental film and ³Collage Movies.² He's no stranger to one man shows, having appeared across the country at such prestigious institutions as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Whitney Museum (New York), the Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh), and the Museum of Fine Art (Boston). Tonight we'll screen Engram Sepals, a feature length series of 7 collage films which trace a trajectory of American intoxication --both sexually and substance wise-- from the second World War into the 1970¹s.