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Hope Against Hope
Exhibition Dates: October 8 – December 4
Curated by: Michael Benevento + Andrew Shenker
Curatorial Advisor: Angel Oloshove

Opening Reception October 8, 6-10PM, Cash Bar
Live performance by Laure Drogoul, Dustin Wong, and H. Honne Wells

Phoenix Shot Tower
corner of Fayette and Front (near President st, end of I-83)

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From the theft of fire [by Prometheus], to contamination through water [Leviticus]; echoing the home of invention and the cornerstone laying by Charles Carroll of Carrollton; a commercial enterprise dissolves the myth of bullets and opens onto hope as poison at the bottom of Pandora’s box.

Scattering the fragments of history to the sound of falling water, this once tallest building in the US becomes a site of modest explorations and play.

Featuring site specific performances, video, drawing, installation, food, and lectures.

Adrian Lohmüller, Anthony Boening, Dane Nester, Dustin Carlson, Dustin Wong, Elizabeth McTernan, Eric Leshinsky, Fred Scharmen, Gram Coreil-Allen, H. Honne Wells, Heda Hokschirr, Jan Razauskas, John Ellsberry, Jordan Bernier, Julianne Hamilton, Kathleen Mazurek, Kristen Anchor, Laure Drogoul, Lee Freeman, Lou Joseph, Marian Glebes, Patrick Caulfield, Mike Washington, Ms. Nagle’s March Middle School Class, Robby Rackleff, Ryan von Dohlen, Sometimes Dining, Stewart Watson, Susie Brandt, Teddy Johnson, and Tim Doherty.

ETC: The Experimental Television Center 1969-2009 is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. Please contact EAI for more information. [www.eai.org or 212.337.0680]

5 DVD set, with 132 page catalog. Total running time: 19 hours.

Mara Alper • Amoeba Technology • Kristen Anchor • Benton Bainbridge • Irit Batsry • Bebe Beard • Alan Berliner • Kjell Bjorgeengen • David Blair • Peer Bode • Philip R Bonner • Jean-Pierre Boyer • Lawrence Brose • Nancy Buchanan • Barbara Buckner • Torsten Zena Burns • Michael L. V. Butler • Abigail Child • Laurie Beth Clark • Cohen Charles • Connie Coleman • Dearraindrop • Andrew Deutsch • Kenneth Dominick • Monica Duncan • Nicholas Economos • David Fodel • Joshua Fried • Larry Gartel • Raymond Ghirardo • Jonnathan Giles • Shalom Gorewitz • Carol Goss • Alexander Hahn • Barbara Hammer • Julie Harrison • Sachiko Hayashi • Janene Higgins • Gary Hill • Tali Hinkis • Sara Hornbacher • Takahiko Iimura • Kelly Jacobson • Deborah Johnson • Brian Kane • Peggy Kay • Zohar Kfir • John Knecht • Andrew Koontz • Richard Kostelanetz • Annie Langan • Kyle Lapidus • Paula Levine • Henry Linhart • Jeanne Liotta • Jason Livingston • LoVid • Kristin Lucas • Darrin Martin • Mimi Martin • Christina McPhee • Rohesia Hamilton Metcalfe • Aaron Miller • Bianca Bob Miller • Terry Mohre • Brian Moran • Ikue Mori • NNeng • Marisa Olson • Carol Parkinson • John Phillips • Michael Phillips • Alan Powell • Nicholas Ray • Megan Roberts • Ron Rocco • Peter Rose • Eric Ross • Mary Ross • Dave Ryan • Lynne Sachs • Eric Schefter • Michael Schell • Matthew Schlanger • Jessie Shefrin • Alan Sondheim • Caspar Stracke • Mark Street • Chad Strohmayer • Aldo Tambellini • Carolyn Tennant • Matthew Underwood • Liselot van der Heijden • Siebren Versteeg • Ben Vida • Nancy Walker • Reynold Weidenaar

The Experimental Television Center is pleased to announce the upcoming release of ETC: Experimental Television Center 1969-2009, a five DVD set presenting the electronic media work of over one hundred artists who have worked in the Center’s Residency Program during the last 40 years. The collection offers a look at the evolution of the unique artist-designed sound and image tools that are the hallmark of the Center’s studio and provides a view into the constantly changing artistic processes and practices that have shaped the work over the years. The set is being distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix.

Video art began to develop in the US in the late 1960s, with the introduction of new portable video tools. While many artists used the technology to document and have voice in social and political issues, others collaborated with technologists to design unique instruments which allowed the creation of imagery never before seen. ETC remains dedicated to the development of video and digital instruments in the service of creative visual and sonic investigation by artists from around the world.

This set contains works by the first generation of video and film artists – including Barbara Hammer, Gary Hill, Jud Yalkut and Aldo Tambellini – as well as contemporary works by Marisa Olson, Kristin Lucas, Lynne Sachs and Mark Street. The complete list of artists is below. A 132 page catalog is also included. The works have been widely exhibited internationally and received awards from festivals around the world.

For about 40 years the Center has offered programs in support of the media arts, offering an international residency Program, grants to individuals and media organizations, and sponsorship assistance for independent media and film artists. The Video History Web is an online resource for scholars concerning the formative development of media art and community television.

The Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival presents:

INFRARED: New Visions from the Queer Underground

Curated by Malic Amalya

Thursday, October 21; 9:45pm
Northwest Film Forum; 1515 12th Ave, Seattle, WA

Full of Pride by The Wreck Family,

S.K. Shipwreck, Nastalie Bykewreck, Boi Bella Trainwreck (US, 5 minutes, 2010)

Love Story by Dean Spade (US, 2 minutes, 2010)

COPS featuring the young Sweller Weller (US, 4 minutes, 2002)

If There be Thorns by Michael Robinson (US, 13.5 minutes, 2009)

My Baloney by Kristen Anchor and Rahne Alexander (US, 1 minute, 2007)

Short Shorts by Wyatt Riot (US, 3 minutes, 2008-2010)

Come Lontano by Doug Ischar (US, 22 minutes, 2010)

Dinner Dance of Death by Juxtapose My Ass (US, 6.5 minutes, 2009)

From the depths of the underground come new works that defy standards of narrative cinema and heteronormativity. Embracing radical politics and documenting the freaky beauty of Queer culture, these shorts range from amateur videos to stunning Super 8 and16mm celluloid. From Bacchanalian transubstantiation (Dinner Dance of Death), to attempts of smashing the system (COPS), fat femme fag perversion (Short Shorts), and dark waves of exile, incest, and magic (If There Be Thorns). With a special Northwest premier of Doug Ischar’s Come Lontano, which examines the extraordinary relationship between opera singer Maria Callas and controversial Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini.

This program contains sexually explicit material.

Illustration by Emily C-D

trans queer rocknroll scifi tragicomic short movies // Video Artists Rahne Alexander & Kristen Anchor

Sat Mar 27, 7pm  Gay Community Center, Event Hall, 1407 Sherwood Ave.  Richmond, VA
Tue Mar 30, 8pm, Five in One, 423 N. Watkins, Memphis, TN
Wed Mar 31, 7:30pm,  Zeitgeist, 1618 Orthea Castle Haley, New Orleans, LA
Thu Apr 1,7pm  Bottletree, 3719 3rd Ave, S, Birmingham, AL
Fri Apr 2, 7pm Gypsy Lounge at Pura Vida, 1521 Central Ave, Charlotte, NC
Sat Apr 3, 7pm Nightlight 405 1/2 W Rosemary St, Chapel Hill, NC

Contacts: Kristen Anchor kristen.anchor@mac.com,
Rahne Alexander rahne.alexander@gmail.com

Dogs In Space, 2009

Kristen Anchor draws from a range of sources – internet, instructional videos, tv, films, photos, drawings, original footage — and heavily processes them into short narratives, visual essays, and jokes. Patrick Dempsey becomes a bulldagger heartthrob, George W wiggles, football squads jiggle, and puppies save the universe from ultimate doom.

Kristen screens:

Dogs In Space (single channel video, 4min, 2009)
The future of the universe depends on an elite group of dogs in outter space!    Anchor collages elements from sci-fi genre films (‘hi tech’ graphics, special effects, sets, sound design, and music) to suggest a doomed narrative – a narrative built on the fear and paranoia of the unknown.   Yet,  the mounting suspense is confronted by the absurdity of dogs in space suits, creating a layered critique, probing at questions of social anxieties, the culture of paranoia, and how these social forces play out in popular culture.  Created at the Experimental TV Center, March 2009. Screenings: Electronic Gallery, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD, Apr 3-14, 2009, DigiAGoGo, Miami, FL, 2009, Pigpen, Chicago, Il

I’ll Pass (16mm/video, 8min, 2008)
Cindi has a secret. She loves a girl named Ronnie. Can’t Buy Me Love, re-written and edited, is the story of Cindi and Ronnie. Screenings: Los Solos Series Oct 3, 2008; Mix NYC, Oct 10, 2008; Charm City Kitty Club Jan 23-24,2009; Threat Level, Feb 2009, Chicago, IL; AVWC, ongoing, Transmodern Festival Apr 2-5, 2009.

The Ends (single channel video, 10 min excerpt of 30 min, loop, 2009)
Created to mark the end of analog broadcast — looped “the end” cards collected from Hollywood films degrade with each loop. Screenings: Dead Air, Metro Gallery Feb 17-Mar 22, 2009, Pigpen, Chicago, Il Aug 2009.

Female Trouble (single channel video, 3 min, 2009)
Music video performed by The Degenerettes, in collaboration with The Miss America Puppet Show. Screenings: CAmm Cine Lounge, 2009, Windup Space, 2009, Pigpen, Chicago, Il, 2009, Big Show, 2009

Bush Beatin’ (single channel video, 3min, 2004)
A reductionist political rant: Bush Beatin’, a pastiche of appropriated images including vintage erotica (bush) and manipulated cut and paste animated images of Mr. Pres (Bush), all to the melody of a quirky mini-song also produced by Anchor. Created at Experimental Television Center Screenings: CineKink, NY 2004, Charm City Kitty Club 2004, Icecapades, Baltimore show, 2004, Phoenix Rising, Santa Cruz, CA 2004, Hondance Arts Festival, January 2005, Women in the Director’s Chair Film Festival, March 2005, MARS, AFI Silver Theater, Silver Spring, MD April 2005, Hondance Compilation DVD, Released January 2005, www.ifilm.com, Creative Capitalism’s Notebook released May 2006, Stateless Cinema Washington DC Feb 2007, Los Solos series October 2008.

Rahne Alexander summons Hollywood’s subconscious obsessions to the surface using hunted footage: cinema’s most-used line, a catalog of yawns, a history film protagonists’ reactions to gender-variant bodies, human despair in the face of natural disaster.

Rahne screens:

Simoom (single channel video, 4:42, 2009)
Communication breaks down in the wake of disaster. Based on “MS. Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allen Poe. Screenings: Baltimore Museum of Art, December 2009, Baltimore MD; CAmm A/V Cart Exhibition, Jan-Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

Technicolor Yawn (single channel video, 3:09, 2009)
A light-hearted endurance test for the viewer’s autonomic response; or, the most boring film ever made. Screenings: The Creative Alliance Big Show, June 2009, Baltimore MD; Threat Level, Summer 2009, Chicago IL; 14Karat Cabaret, Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

Equal+Opposite (single channel video, 5:20, 2008)
Ordinary, everyday movie stars react to gender-variant bodies. Screenings: MIX21: New York City’s Queer Experimental Film Festival, October 2008; Threat Level, Summer 2009, Chicago IL; Homoscope, August 2009, Austin TX; Trannyfest, Nov 2009, San Francisco CA; 14Karat Cabaret, Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

Let’s Get Out Of Here Too, or, Come On Let’s Go (single channel video, 5:00, 2008)
The final word on Hollywood’s allegedly most-spoken line, starring Robert DeNiro. Screening: CAmm A/V Cart Exhibition, Jan-Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

I Only Said I Knew Because You Said You Knew (single channel video, 5:00, 2006)
The modern prophets discuss the nature of truth. Screenings: Holy Crap!, August 2006, Baltimore MD; CAmm A/V Cart Exhibition, Jan-Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

Let’s Get Out Of Here (single channel video, 2:30, 2009)
A collage featuring Hollywood’s allegedly most-spoken line. “Way Cool Film Geek” Jury Prize, Microcinefest 2006. Screenings: Microcinefest, 2006, Baltimore MD; Freewaves 11: Holly Would If She Could, Oct 2008, Los Angeles CA; MIX21: New York City’s Queer Experimental Film Festival, Oct 2008, New York NY; 14Karat Cabaret, Feb 2010, Baltimore MD.

Bios

Kristen Anchor has worked as Director of Creative Alliance MovieMakers since 2001, curating the screenings program and producing programs and workshops to support the filmmaking community in Baltimore. Anchor’s videos have screened at festivals and galleries all over the US and she is a frequent panelist and presenter for film and video events and organizations, including: Women in the Director’s Chair (Chicago, IL), DigiAGoGo (Art Basel Miami) Maryland Film Festival, Mix NYC, Art Institute of Portland, Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY), and MicroCineFest (Baltimore). She plays drums for Baltimore’s queer garage band The Degenerettes, and is the creator of the out of this world performance duo Monster Drummer Thunderupagus.

Alexander’s film collages have been screened in galleries and festivals across the country, including Freewaves (LA), Mix NYC, Threat Level (Chicago), Homoscope (Austin) and Trannyfest (SF). She co-founded the garage rock band The Degenerettes and is also an organizer with Baltimore’s Transmodern art festival, the Charm City Kitty Club and the Maryland Film Festival.

Videos

More info:
kristenanchor.com
youtube.com/keaanchor
degenerettes.com
www.reverbnation.com/rahnealexander
youtube.com/foucauldianho

8pm, Sat March 13, 2010
Moveable Feets, A Dance Party Fundraiser for Moveable Feast

Metro Gallery
1700 N. Charles St., Baltimore
$10 at the door

Music from The Motorettes, The Degenerettes, Humble Tripe, and DJ John
Eaton

Dance contest celebrity judges:
Laure Drogoul, Sculptor, artist and cultural provocateur supreme
Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper Arts Editor
Flo Shizzle, Junkyard Dolls/Charm City Roller Girls bruiser

Remember that day during Snowmageddon when you didn’t have enough food
at home and couldn’t get out to buy more? That’s what it’s like all the
time for clients of Moveable Feast. But this you can do something
about! For $10 you get a mean dance party, dance contests, celebrity
judges (who you are encouraged to bribe…for a good cause), raffles,
sparkly outfits and more! And the funds support Team BikeCurious who
will ride 140 miles in 2 days for 1 awesome organization that has been
providing sound, nutritious meals for Marylanders with HIV, AIDS and
breast cancer for over 20 years. Throw on whatever outfit inspires you
to shake things up and then head down to the Metro Gallery for the best
time that $10 can buy!

Moveable Feast and Ride for the Feast
www.mfeast.org
Moveable Feast is a nutritional support program that prepares and
delivers meals and groceries at no charge to people and their families
throughout greater Baltimore and Maryland’s Eastern Shore who are in
need and living with HIV/AIDS and other life-challenging conditions.

Ride for the Feast is an unforgettable journey where ordinary people
achieve extraordinary things. A 2-day, 140-mile bike ride from Rehoboth
Beach to Baltimore City that raises funds and awareness of our
families, friends and neighbors across the state who live in poverty
with HIV/AIDS or breast cancer. It will be an experience and a feeling
that you won’t soon forget.

Can’t make it, but want to support our team?
http://rideforthefeast.kintera.org/bikecurious

This is a test video of pretty raw footage.

I’m getting started on a new cycle of videos looking at male rock stars. This first cycle compares and contrasts Kurt Cobain and Mick Jagger. In these videos, created at the Experimental TV Center, concert footage of Nirvana controls the distortion of Stones concert footage and vice versa, through various electronic gizmos.

This is step one of the process.

Single Channel Video Loop
Created at Experimental TV Center, Feb 2010