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911 Media Arts Center is Washington's only non-profit media center
supporting film, video and multimedia artists with new technology tools,
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Monday, January 13th, 8pm
$1 (cheap)
Have you experienced the plasmic, womblike comfort of an Open Screening? Showing your masterpiece or work in progress is like bathing in friendly criticism. How else could you possibly learn so much? You will emerge renewed, refreshed and ready to charge ahead. Bring your VHS tapes. Call ahead for other formats.
Seattle Art Museum, 911 Media Arts Center and ASIFA Northwest welcome internationally recognized artist and animator Christine Panushka as she screens and discusses her work.
Considered ''in the front rank of contemporary animation'' by critic Gene Youngblood, Christine Panushka's simple human and bestial image evoke the languages of mythology and gesture, creating the film equivalent of poetry. Her films, at once sensuous and cerebral, lead the viewer to places both feared and desired.
Panushka is the Associate Director of the Experimental Animation Program at California Institute for the Arts and the focus of one of Absolut VodkaÕs three art web sites. Her award-winning films have been featured at numerous festivals, including the Hiroshima and Cardiff International Animation Festivals, Oberhausen, Ann Arbor and Anima Mundi in Rio de Janeiro.
Marrow, 1996, 35mm, 4 minutes
Nightime Fears and Fantasies, 1986, 16mm, 7 minutes
The Sum of Them, 1984, 16mm, 4 minutes
NightÕs Last Child, 1978, 16mm, 2 minutes
Candyjam, 1987, 16mm, 10 minutes
Absolut Panushka Reel, 1996, video, 5 minutes
Slides of her paintings, prints and drawings will also be featured.
For those of us who live on sugar and caffeine, 911 presents The Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival, an evening of over sixty short films (lasting no more than two minutes each). The SASFVF started out at Artists' Television Access in San Francisco as an alternative outlet for unique, short shorts which are typically lost in film festivals. 
Over the past five years the festival has grown to include everything from Pixel Vision to 35mm films. Last year, selections were screened on Fox's WEIRD TV. Come enjoy donuts, Jolt cola and an evening of quirky comedic gems, micro-documentaries and loads of animation.
Queen of the Mist
Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe
A 63 year-old teacher facing unemployment and poverty in 1901, Annie Edson Taylor decided to take up the challenge P.T. Barnum had issued and send herself over Niagara Falls as her one hope to reverse her fortunes. Had Taylor been a man or a young beauty, she might have found the fame and fortune she hoped for. Instead she was ignored and derided, robbed and abandoned by her managers, impersonated by an actress, and eclipsed by Bobby Leach - who was the first man to go over the falls (ten years after her daring feat).
The Female Offender
Mary Ann Toman
The Female Offender is a dense and poetic exploration of the dangerous space where femininity and criminality collide. The film collages archival footage, clips culled from silent films, and computer-generated imagery with a series of narratives drawn from true crime confessions, early criminological texts and the filmmaker's own reflections. Mary Ann Toman will be in attendance at the screening.
Island of Symmetry
Mary Ann Toman
Ideal notions of landscape and femininity take on a schizophrenic form in an urban and technological context.
Obsessions
Kimberly Shane O'Hara
They are four strangers waiting for a train. Self-destructive needs brew deep inside each of them. We witness their plunge over the fine line of psychological safety into an uncontrolled existence. They have become dangerous, for these are now their obsessions: Rhythm. Food. Fire. Sex. Kimberly Shane O'Hara of Yellow Duck Productions will be in attendance at the screening.
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