911 Media Arts Center: August '97 Screenings

911 Media Arts Center is Washington's only non-profit media center supporting film, video and multimedia artists with new technology tools, workshops, screenings.

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Sixth Annual Twin Peaks Festival:
A David Lynch Celebration
Saturday, August 9th, 7:30pm
at The Broadway Performance Hall
$7/$5 (911 and SAM members)

911 Media Arts Center, the Seattle Art Museum and Scarecrow Video proudly present a rare screening of David Lynch's Oscar-nominated film The Elephant Man in the UCLA Film Archive's widescreen 35mm print. This is the true story of John Merrick (John Hurt), a horrendously deformed man, whose beatific soul is discovered and protected by Dr. Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins). We'll begin the evening with a look at the TV commercials and music videos Lynch has quietly made over the last nine years (from perfume to Alka-Seltzer to Michael Jackson). We will also present the Seattle premiere of Toby Keeler's Pretty as a Picture, a documentary that candidly follows Lynch's Art Life from boyhood to Twin Peaks to the making of Lost Highway. Join us at the Broadway Performance Hall for a screening of the Director's Cut of The Elephant Man, and television commercials by David Lynch.

Open Screening!
Monday, August 11th, 8pm
$1 (cheap)

Open Screening is a great opportunity to meet, greet and vid-out! Please bring your work on VHS to show. Everyone is welcome!

Perspective: Filmmaker
Friday, August 15th, 8pm
$4/$3 (members)
An evening of films told from the filmmaker's perspective....

Someone to Love
by Shawn Goldberg

Meet Max as his attempts to gain momentum in the film business lead him to confront his inner child. This rude and revealing short puts a generation X twist on a classic quandary -- how to accept love for what it is rather than to desire an idealized notion.

The Blinking Madonna and Other Miracles
by Beth Harrington

An hour-long creative, non-fiction film which, in part, tells the true story of how a filmmaker recorded a purported miracle with her video camera and the subsequent media events that ensued. child This funny and poignant piece details the events of the summer of 1991, when a statue of the Virgin Mary blinked her eyes during an Italian-American religious feast in Boston's North End and changed the life of a woman looking for a few good answers.

Beth Harrington will be in attendance to answer questions and talk about her film.

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An Evening of Film and Video Art featuring Takahiko Iimura
Tuesday, August 19th, 8pm
$4/$3 (members)

Please join us for a special evening of film and video art submitted from various artists around the country. As part of this exciting evening, we are very fortunate to host a screening and discussion with internationally acclaimed media artist Takahiko Iimura.

A pioneer artist of Japanese experimental film and video since 1960, Iimura is also a widely established international artist, having numerous exhibitions in Japan, the USA and Europe. Major film and video screenings of his work have been presented at the Museum of Modern Art and The Whitney Museum in New York, Centre George Pompidou in Paris and The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.

A I U E O NN Six Features
Takahiko Iimura Tokyo, Japan
Iimura's manipulated face, or "features," pronounce the Japanese vowels, A, I, U, E, O and the extra NN. To truly appreciate this warped, experimental video you must open up your head to something quite different. Let limura expand your perceptions of what language has become in the computer-altered medium of video.

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James G. Oaks Portland, OR
A disquieting event in a dreamlike, diaphanous vista elicits a transformation in a young lad and in the viewer. Minimalist sound and strong composition combine for a very compelling short.

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Rossana Jeran Kansas City, MO
Rossana's company, Gothic Productions, is aptly named. She produces sensual videos which unfold a dark potpourri of fragmented images. Interwoven are delicate narrative threads which arise and dissolve like vapors.

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Thom Heileson Seattle, WA
Communications technology and "borg-ification" are the targets of this satire. Ironically, this work artfully employs the same technology it criticizes. Grainy video interspersed with brilliant splashes of Technicolor contrast what is real and what is hyper-real.

And Universe Expands From Bang
Franklin Joyce Seattle, WA
Bang is a visual essay reflecting on the ineffable enthusiasm of the American space race era starring a flip book chimponaut, early sci-fi film footage and high tech umbrella technology. Bang was edited at 911 Media Arts Center.

Hell on Wheels
by Diane Grace
Thursday, August 28th, 8pm
Donation suggested

Diane has done it again with this humorous tale about the difficulties of being confined to a wheelchair and doing something as simple as going to the mall. Diane reveals how it feels to be the only normal person in a world of freaks. Her intimate, honest perspective smoothes out the video's rough edges as she approaches uncomfortable subjects with thoughtfulness and humor.

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