911 presents: HAACK KING OF TECHNO Friday, May 7, 8pm $6 / $4 (911 members) Bruce Haack was one of the most musically and lyrically inventive, but unknown artist in American history. Despite (or perhaps because of) his audience, his music was unusually expressive, combining home-made analog synthesizers with classical, country, pop and acid rock elements. Ironically, his music evolved from his creation of numerous children's albums; but, today his work has inspired the likes of world re-known musicians such as Beck, Beastie Boys and Mouse On Mars; proving he's an almost-lost treasure ripe for rediscovery. Packed with mind blowing visuals, wild music and far out stories, Haack follows the King of Techno as he drops in on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and golden game show host Garry Moore, playing all his bizarre instruments such as the Peopleodian, a device played by touching people's skin! Directed in true Haack spirit - for kids, adults and music fans alike - this intriguing film will send you out humming School for Robots and scrambling for his records. --a fun dive into a bizarre creative sensibility; enlivened by apt animated graphics -Variety --proof that the world is still catching up to this prolific and distinctive pioneer. -Gene Siskel

 

	911 presents: OPEN SCREENING Monday, May 10, 8pm $1 / free for 911 members We're all pleased that Greg D will be back from the Caribbean to host OS again. Bring your VHS or DVD short - less than 10 minutes please - make sure it's cued up - first come first serve. Let the tradition live on, long live Open Screening!

 

	911 and Body Freedom Collaborative present: NAKED FREEDOM FILM FESTIVAL Saturday and Sunday, May 15 and 16 $6 / $4 (911 members) The Naked Freedom Festival explores naked expression in its many colors. Three unique shows will play at 911 and the Seattle Art Museum. The films will explore themes of body acceptance, body art, public lands advocacy, exploitation, taboo, recreation, emerging body-positive cultures, and the use of the naked body to seek social justice. These films showcase historic moments and the many colorful personalities involved in the spread of body-positive culture. For more info visit: bodyfreedom.org Festival Kickoff Saturday, May 15, 1:30 at Seattle Art Museum Matinee screening features Analog Roam by Kurt Wahlner, Being Human by Lisa Seidenberg, Riverdogs by Robb Moss, Naked Pavement by Joshua Tunick and Nude Not by Thomas Lundy. SAM show will also feature the premiere of Solstice, produced by James W. Taylor. Cinema Au Naturel Saturday, May 15, 7:30 at 911 Tonight's show will include a lecture by Mark Storey, author of Cinema Au Naturel, followed by a screening of Max Nosseck's Garden of Eden (1954), the best known film of its genre. Chasing the Sun, a recent naturist short, will also be shown. Public Nudity 101 Sunday, May 16, 7:30 at 911 This night's lineup will include Incarnating for an Afternoon by Marty Kent, the Seattle premiere of a documentary on Charles MacFarland's groundbreaking works exploring society's response to non-sexualized, free-range nakedness, in urban and rural environments. WWW.BODYFREEDOM.ORG

 

	911, ASIFA Northwest and Puppeteers Guild present: ANIMATORS SOCIAL PUPPET PARTY Friday, May 21, 8pm $3 / Free (911, ASIFA, Puppet Guild members) Tonight we're putting a new twist on Animator's Social by celebrating the intersection of puppetry, animation and media art. Planned for the bill is a screening of Peter Jackson's rarely-seen pre-LOTR short film Meet the Feebles, we'll also show beautiful stop-motion puppet animation from Wladyslaw Starevitch and something new from Screen Novelties, the creators of the award winning short puppet film Graveyard Jamboree. You're welcome to bring your own short animated works (on DVD or VHS) and show them on the big screen.

 

	911 presents: WHEN VIDEO CAME By Andres Tapia-Urzua Friday, May 28 8pm $6 / $4 (911 members) This show in our beloved Yale Ave theatre will celebrate 20 years of media art with an evening of short videos and the highly pertinent documentary When Video Came. This fascinating look at the history of video art in the U.S. is a timely reminder of how organizations such as 911 came to be and why we do what we do! Additionally, we will present a compliment of unique video art shorts from around the world. Carousel Slide By Devin Damonte Devon Damonte will present short excerpts from Carousel Slide - a multi-maximum-media-a-v project to commemorate Kodak's discontinuation of slide projectors in June 2004. Marvelous Creatures By Wago Kreider This series of photographic shocks is a rapid oscillation between plentitude and punishment, attraction and repulsion, life and death. In the Shadow of Digital Living By Phoenix Perry Perry resurrects a broken mixer and a dropped video camera as a metaphor for technologies insufficiencies. Radical Medicate By David Tinapple Pharmaceutical commercials warp into a slinky like curve, liquefying smiling faces and cute puppies. Objects, Sounds Movements By Carl Turton Brilliantly manipulated sound and image become polyrhythmic meditations. Kneecam by Matthias Fritsch Reality is stranger than fiction and more bizarre than any art imaginable.