911 and CoCA present
A Lecture with Slides and Video from:
The Center for Land Use Interpretation
Thursday, June 17th, 8pm
$4 / $2 (911 and CoCA members)
Please join us for an artist talk with Matthew Coolidge of The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI). Mr. Coolidge will amuse and astound us with anecdotes and unusual findings as he presents a video and slide show tour of his work. The CLUI is a nonprofit research organization based in Los Angeles that explores the nature and consequences of human interaction with the earth's surface. Focusing on landscapes that have been altered by the hands of industry, art, commerce or defense, the CLUI offers a different lens through which to understand land use and action. Come and enjoy a fascinating exploration of artifacts of contemporary land use such as: radon health caves, religious devotional canyons, military installations, bombshelters or jojoba plantations. Be sure to also check out the exhibition and tours arranged by CoCA and the CLUI throughout the month of June. Contact CoCA 206 728-1980.

911, Eleventh Hour Productions and Vertical Pool Present
The Nomad Videofilm Festival
Friday June 18th 8pm
$6 / $3 (members)
This pacific coast touring venue is devoted to experimental video, film and computer media art. This year's show, "videopoems", features works curated from almost100 entries worldwide with premieres by, Antero Alli (Witch Burning) and Sylvie Pickering (The Dreamer & the Doer) plus works from Prague (Tenis Match), Belfast (Pictures in Ireland) NYC (Fine Lines) among others. These are not videos of poets performing their poems but short videofilms using poetic text as oblique and obvious narratives.

Fine Lines (5:30; NYC) by Jane Higgins. Repression breeds fine lines.

Under A Broad Gray Sky (5:00; San Francisco) by Thad Povey. Light and time seem frozen during the reading of a poem by Baudelaire. A mundane moment in an ordinary day is briefly transformed

Tenis Match (10:00; Prague) by Robert Ellmann. Our artistic vision derives from the clash between archaeology (silent film techniques) and anthropology (modern commercial rivalry). We find poetry there.

Bodies (2:37; Seattle) by Brian C. Short.

Pictures in Ireland (6:00; Belfast) by Dave Johnston. The words of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (who spent time in a cottage on the West coast of the island), underscore images of everyday Ireland.

Father Daughter (5:10; Denver) by Bill Depper. This is a meditation upon the consciousness of my daughter and myself during her first year.

Witch Burning (4:00; Berkeley) by Antero Alli. From the poem of the same title by Sylvia Plath, a serenely disturbing vision has inspired an idea about fire.

Suenos (5:06; Arvada CO) by Judy Gardner. This video is based on performance & installation work done at the University of Colorado while earning my Masters in Fine Arts & Theatre. I became intrigued with translating live work into the digital realm and this is the result.

The Dreamer & The Doer (6:00; Berkeley) by Sylvie Pickering. A polarity study. Moving images mark a distinction between two realms, inspired by an e-mail message from my partner in crime.

Descriptions of the Indescribable (9:35; Pacoima CA) by Stuart White and Ingrid Gilbert. Just because we can make it perfect doesn't mean we have to.

Day of the Dead (5:28; NYC) by Annette Weintraub. Contrasts the warmth of ritualized recollection of friends with the brutality of sudden meeting with violence on the street.

Circus (5:00; Berkeley CA) by Roberts Blossom, Brih Abee. There's a politico-economic subtext; one of a series of performance poems.

The Slant (2:00; Jericho NY) by Sarah Lofti. Let text conjure emotions as only images have done before; voice & text by Ani Difranco.

Sleepless Movie (3:30; San Jose CA) by Mark Haren Stream-of consciousness poetry, traditional hand-drawn, and experimental animation techniques are combined to evoke the childhood nighttime fears, big questions and semi-random scattered thoughts of a sleepless night.

Water Planet (6:00; Oakland CA) by Bill Levinson

What the World Needs Now (3:00; Sacramento CA) by Sean Christopher. Rare raw bites from "All About Audrey", Sacramento's most twisted live variety talk show, where the often audacious and occasionally obscene always happens.