VIDEO PROGRAMS

Saturday, November 10, 2007 9pm
The Hide out
1354 W Wabansia Ave
(773) 227-4433
Admission: $8 ($5 after midnight)




8PM Select Space Cuts :: Video Screening
In order to create the perfect Select Media Festival shorts program that relates to our theme of "Space" we introduce new works by some of the galaxy's most important filmmakers and animators. We also throw in a dose of some our shining stars from past festivals. This program thanks to Ton Meijdam and his recent "Kick Ass" video program. Videos by: Mike Miles, Jan Van Nuemen, Usama Alshaibi, Floris Kaaykm, Tyrone Davies, and Bernard Gigounon.

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10 PM Performances

Lagrange Point
Space midi moog guitar freak out

Mbulu
Mbulu is the congotronic incarnation that invades Chicago eve season, Don't miss the beats.

Midnight:

DJ Hunter Hussar
Man of Mahjongg onthe puter with::

Dj Logan Bay Chicago has been sleeping for too long.

November 11, 2007



TRANSMISSIONS
November 11, 2007
Co-Prosperity Sphere
Location: Co-Prosperity Sphere ::
3219-21 South Morgan St.
773.837.0145
Admission: $5 suggested donation

Video programs, a zine, dvds, space corn and beverages will be served. Featuring the release of "Sandwitch". Get a free of the new media zine with entry.

ABOUT SANDWITCH.
A new media-zine that will serve as the main DVD distribution arm for loaf-i productions. Every few months, a new DVD, or set of DVDs will be available on loaf-i.com . These DVDs will almost always be a part of the SANDWITCH zine. Experimental videos, documentaries, music videos, animations and feature films are just a few examples of the kind of work that each SANDWITCH DVD might contain. The Lost Media Archive, a depository for strange and forgotten media works, will also produce DVDs of truly unusual archival and "found" footage for some issues of SANDWITCH. In addition to video, SANDWITCH issues will commonly contain CDs that bear the works of loaf-i bands and other forward-thinking musicians. All this, and an occasional written article will serve as the meat, tomato, lettuce and pickles on the best new media-zine named after a food that anyone ever consumed.

The First Issue of SANDWITCH contains two DVDs! One disk contains all the Tyrone Davies music videos to date ( see compressed versions at http://loaf-i.com/musicvideos/ ). Videos are for Mahjongg, Terror Folds, The Foundry Field Recordings, Shiftyindividual, Half-handed Cloud, and Sabreteeth. Disk two contains some truly great wierdness compiled by the Lost Media Archive . In addition to these DVDs, SANDWITCH #1 contains a compilation cd from Ratskin Records. Two great DVDs, a way-cool CD, and a handmade zine all compiled into one media-product by loaf-i productions. Today is your lucky day!

7pm Out _ Lost film archive videos (from Sandwitch #1 ZIne)
OUT is an ever-changing program of Outsider film and video clips curated by the Lost Media Archive and produced by the Free Form Film Festival and Loaf-I productions. Outsider media, as defined by the Lost Media Archive, is essentially the film and television equivalent of Outsider Art or "Art Brut" -except that the LMA does not believe a person has to be insane (or even untrained) to be an Outsider.

Any media created that lacks self-awareness, or unintentionally confuses the audience, or simply finds itself outmoded and out of touch. Any such work is certainly not "IN" and thus the LMA has dubbed it OUT.
OUT programs have shown in various cities across the U.S. Press write-ups often make the mistake of thinking the OUT curators, Blair Sterrett, Tyrone Davies, and Ryan Wylie, "love to hate" Outsider media. The truth is, we LOVE TO LOVE Outsider media. Embarrassing, yet refreshing. Awkward, yet beautifully naïve. In a world so concerned with well-oiled,
highly polished media-garbage, we at the Lost Media Archive, and the Free Form Film Festival find roughly hewn, awkwardly prepared media-garbage to be the only garbage that's worth our time!


8:30 pm Intermission: Special program tba



9 pm: Interkosmos (71 minutes, 2006, written and directed by Jim Finn)
Jim Finn's Interkosmos, a retro gust of Communist utopianism, returns to Chicago. " A cosmonaut romance set aboard a 1970s East German space mission to colonize the moons of Saturn and Jupiter, Interkosmos weaves together lovingly faked archival footage, charmingly undermotivated musical numbers, propagandistic maxims ("Capitalism is like a kindergarten of boneless children"), stop-motion animation (of a suitably crude GDR-era level), a Teutonic (and vaguely Herzogian) voiceover, and a superb garage-y Kraut-rock score (by Jim Becker and Colleen Burke). Finn's deadpan is immaculately bone-dry, and his antiquarian fastidiousness is worthy of Guy Maddin" - Village Voice
http://www.interkosmosmovie.com/


November 13, 2007



TRANSMISSIONS 2
November 13, 2007 8pm
Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 S Morgan St
773.837.0145
Admission: $3 suggested donation

Films and videos selected for the festival. And a special late nite session to contact orbiting space junk.

8 pm TLVSN :; Made for Holland (45 minutes, US/NL (2005-2007)
Select Media Festival and our sister festival, Version make DIY tv shows that run on Cable Access Network 19 here in Chicago. We often run all the videos and works that play at the festival on CAN tv so that they reach the widest possible audience. The Made for Holland is a highlights program that we prepared for our Dutch cholos a few months ago. We believe everyone must make TLVSN and here is one reason why. Featuring videos by Takeshi Murata, Paper Rad, TV Sheriff and Dungeon Magesty.

9pm Alphaville (99 minutes, France/Italy (1965) Jean-Luc Godard
Alphaville is a 1965 black-and-white French science fiction film directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Its original French title is Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution (Alphaville, a Strange Adventure of Lemmy Caution). The film stars Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, Howard Vernon and Akim Tamiroff. The film won the Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival in 1965.

Alphaville combines the genres of dystopian science fiction and film noir. Although set far in the future on another planet, there are no special effects or elaborate sets; instead, the film was shot in real locations in Paris, the night-time streets of the capital becoming the streets of Alphaville, while modernist glass and concrete buildings represent the city's interiors. In addition, the characters refer to twentieth century events; for example, the hero describes himself as a Guadalcanal veteran.
Eddie Constantine plays Lemmy Caution, a trenchcoat-wearing secret agent. Constantine had already played this role in dozens of previous films; the character was originally created by British pulp novelist Peter Cheyney. However, in Alphaville, director Jean-Luc Godard moves Caution away from his usual twentieth century setting, and places him in a futuristic sci-fi dystopia, the technocratic dictatorship of Alphaville.

11pm: Select Space Cuts :: (55 minutes, US/NL (2005-2007)
In order to create the perfect Select Media Festival shorts program that relates to our theme of "Space" we introduce new works by some of the galaxy's most important filmmakers and animators. We also throw in a dose of some our shining stars from past festivals. This program thanks to Ton Meijdam and his recent "Kick Ass" video program. Videos by: Mike Miles, Jan Van Neumen, Usama Alshaibi, Floris Kaaykm, Tyrone Davies, and Bernard Gigounon.

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Midnight : Leo
Think satellites, space stations, and well, space is only for NASA and other large entities? Well think again, there is literally tons of debris that were placed in orbit by and for the weirdo common folk like amateur radio operators. Come drink all night and lurk via radio as our favorite Low Earth Orbit (LEO1s) satellites pass by in the heavens and listen to common ground dwellers operate this really cool and low-fi equipment. At optimum visual times see with your own eyes what a bit of your tax dollars have placed up there. (According to the past predictions, looks like early in the morning)

Saturday November 17, 2007



AN UNREASONABLE MAN
November 17th, 2PM
Claudia Cassidy Theatre
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St.
FREE ADMISSION

Guest Speakers:
Joel Bleifuss, Editor and Publisher, In These Times
Theresa Amato, Campaign Manager, Nader for President 2000 and 2004
As we head into a critical time in U.S. politics, the film and panel will engage the public in a forum to explore the divide between social justice movements and electoral politics.

A discussion will follow the film, led by nationally recognized political journalist and editor, Joel Bleifuss of In These Times, and Theresa Amato, National Campaign Manager for Ralph Nader (featured in the film). RSVP: Naomi_Walker@itvs.org or 773-677-9600

For more information, visit: http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/getinvolved/cinema/

ITVS Community Cinema is pleased to present an abridged one-hour version of AN UNREASONABLE MAN to allow ample time for discussion after the screening. This hour focuses on Ralph Nader's campaign for presidency in the 2000 and 2004 elections and features interviews and commentary from his supporters, his opponents, respected journalists and political analysts.

The event is sponsored by ITVS, Independent Lens, WTTW Channel 11, Select Media Festival, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and In These Times.