911 Media Arts Center: June '97 Events / 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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Anything Boys Can Do
By Ethan H. Minsker
Friday, June 6th, 8pm
$4 / $3 (911 members)

"Anything Boys Can Do" is a rockumentary that stage dives into the deepest pits of the underground New York chick band scene. These gals put on a show unlike any other. Part opera and part riot, a new low in musical theater is exploited for your benefit. Some of the fans are dykes, some are leering frat boys and some just dig the wacky spectacle. This documentary features music by The Voluptous Horror of Karen Black, Sexpod, Tribe 8 and Thrust. This film is unrated but please consider it "R" due to nudity, foul language and copious body fluids.

Open Screening!
Monday, June 9th, 8pm
$1 (cheap)

Bring your videos on VHS!

The Drivetime
by Antero Alli
Friday, June 13th, 8pm
$4 / $3 (911 members)

"The Drivetime follows a bemused time-traveling librarian named Flux from the serenity of 2023 to the chaos of Seattle in 1999, where he uncovers video footage from a riot that triggered the city's collapse. Society's obsession with communications technology has created the near-extinction of conversation. People communicate via e-mail and videofax; the film's few face-to-face encounters have a sourish, sitcom-type sting. On top of this jolting social examination, The Drivetime presents police procedure as entertainment (a la programs like COPS) and disturbing abuses of police. The Drivetime forces viewers to think about where our world is heading. This work should be seen by anyone who mistakenly believes that all's calm and well in our little digital sphere."

-Phil Hall Wired Magazine, October 1996

Cuban Film Festival

The 2nd Annual Cuban Film Fest is sponsored by the Seattle-Cuba Friendship Coalition, a group of community members working to end the 37 year old US embargo of Cuba. Proceeds from the festival will fund scholarships to the 14th World Youth Festival taking place this summer in Havana, Cuba. For further information please call Scott Winn at (206) 324-8165.

Opening Night
The Greening of Cuba
Thursday, June 19, 7pm
$4 / $3 (911 members)

911 Media Arts Center and The Seattle-Cuba Friendship Coalition present, "The Greening of Cuba." Having lost 80% of pesticide and fertilizer imports with the collapse of the soviet bloc, and challenged to feed 11 million people in the face of the U.S. embargo, Cuba embarked on the largest conversion to organic farming ever attempted. The Greening of Cuba captures the voices of those leading Cuba's sustainable agriculture movement and reminds us that developed and developing nations alike can choose a healthier environment and still feed their people.

Velorution! - 7pm
Velorution! takes an upbeat look at Cuba's unprecedented solution to losing half its petroleum imports, a million bicycles! This whirlwind jaunt through Havana's streets provides a uniquely Cuban view of the remarkable potential of people power. There will be a post screening discussion with Seattleites recently returned from sustainable agriculture and solar power seminars in Cuba.

Cuba Va! - 9pm
In the midst of challenging economic and political realities, young Cubans will host their peers from around the globe this summer for the14th World Youth Festival in Havana. Cuba Va! gives center stage to these young Cuban factory workers, rappers, students, and dissidents candidly sharing their views on how to move the country forward to the 21st century.

All other screenings are $5

Queer Cuba
Friday June 20th
7pm - Gay Cuba
9pm - Butterflies on the Scaffold

Race Relations in Cuba
Saturday June 20th
7pm - Theresa (with guest speaker)
9pm - Havana Nagila

Cuba Fest Continues
Friday June 27th
8:30 pm - Butterflies on the scaffold
10 pm - Death of a Bureaucrat

Green! Cuba Fest Continues
Saturday June 28th
7pm - The Excludables
9pm - Memories of Under Development

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