for immediate release, contact: Gerry Fialka 310-306-7330 pfsuzy@aol.com laughtears.com
SUBVERSIVE CINEMA at 212 Pier Coffeehouse http://www.212pier.com/ 212 Pier Ave (one half block east of Main St), Santa Monica, CA 90405 screens films Nov 13 & Dec 18 from 7-10pm, free admission, free popcorn, 310-314-5275, info:310-306-7330, laughtears.com Starting in Jan, 2010, it will be the last Friday of each month. Gerry Fialka screens films as antennae of the race, broadcasting the hidden effects of what we have invented. From experimental films to political activist cinema to lit, art, music flix to avant garde documentaries, this series will provoke new questions and feature fiery discussions.
SUBVERSIVE CINEMA is inspired by two seminal books: Gene Youngblood's EXPANDED CINEMA and Amos Vogel's FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART. In FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART: AMOS VOGEL & CINEMA 16 (2003 documentary directed by Paul Cronin), these thoughts were expressed by Scott MacDonald and Amos:
"Scott MacDonald: In Amos Vogel's Cinema 16 programming strategy, he was very conscious of Eisenstein; with the ideas of juxtaposing one kind of thing with another to create energy in the audience and maximum thought in viewers.
Amos Vogel: When I showed 5 or 6 films on the Cinema 16 program, they were always selected from the point of view how they would collide with each other in the minds of the audience. On one program there would always be an abstract film, a scientific film, an avant-garde film and a political documentary, because my intention at all times was to subvert audience expectations by showing such diverse and different films on one and the same program....
Many films shown at Cinema 16 and in my book "Film As A Subversive Art," show reality in ways that we have not previously anticipated. ... This is how I use the word "subversive" - anything that changes or undermines previous ways of thinking and feeling. Subversive art makes you look at things in a new and very different way. It disrupts. It destroys, and thereby builds up new realities and new truths."
"I have always been on the side of those who seek the truth, but I part ways with them when they think they have found it." - Luis Bunuel. These thoughts inspire the spirit of curating films at SUBVERSIVE CINEMA. The public is invited to join us, free admission. Laughtears.com
212 PIER Coffeehouse http://www.212pier.com/ screens films every Friday at 212 Pier Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90405, 310-314-5275,free admission, 8:30PM (start time exception is last Fridays, which is 7-10pm for Gerry Fialka's Subversive Cinema Series).
212 PIER welcomes all up-and-coming filmmakers to show their films & videos. Contact: Guru Thapar guru@212pier.com
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