SUN MON TUES Wed thurs fri SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 3:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 & 10:00 7:30 7:30 FIST CHURCH FOLKTALES IN THE FOG THE MYSTERY OF THE GRRRL LOVE/PUNK ART DETOURNEMENT: OUTER CHEBURASKA SHORTS LITTLE FEET THIRD PLANET BODY FRAGMENTED 5:00 10:00 10:00 FEMME WINDOWS 10:00 10:00 IT CHANGED MY LIFE UNCLE SAM 10:00 SHE’S REAL (WORSE TRANSLATE WELL CYBERPUNK THIS IS NOT A TEST: MAKE OUT WITH THAN QUEER) CURRENTS SHORTS 1990-1998 7:30 Violence Midnight GO DOWN DEATH MERIDIANS + ERIC B-H HOLOGRAM MAN Midnight LIVE SCORE AT 9:00 LITTLE MARINES 2 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 BLOOD BRUNCH CHEBURASKA SHORTS GO DOWN DEATH THE MYSTERY OF THE FESTIVAL OF IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOLKTALES IN THE FOG THIRD PLANET (IN)APPROPRIATION 5:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 AUTOPSY EPHEMERA: SOCIAL KILLING OF AMERICA 10:00 10:00 SHE’S REAL (WORSE MAKE OUT WITH MACHINES LITTLE FEET FESTIVAL OF THAN QUEER) VIOLENCE 7:30 (IN)APPROPRIATION HANDS OF STEEL Midnight midnight DIGITAL MAN EDGE OF THE AXE 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 7:30 FIST CHURCH KILLING OF AMERICA IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOLKTALES IN THE FOG THIS IS NOT A TEST: LITTLE FEET THE MYSTERY OF THE SHORTS 1990-1998 THIRD PLANET 5:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 EPHEMERA: SOCIAL CYBERPUNK SHE’S REAL (WORSE MAKE OUT WITH 10:00 AN INITIATION INTO 10:00 MACHINES THAN QUEER) VIOLENCE GO DOWN DEATH VIOLENT EXHIBITIONS OF UNCLE SAM MACHINE PERFORMANCE 7:30 midnight midnight GRRRL LOVE/PUNK ART LITTLE MARINES 2 HOLOGRAM MAN 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3:00 7:30 7:30 8:00 7:30 7:30 7:30 BLOOD BRUNCH THIS IS NOT A TEST: CYBERPUNK SHE MUST BE SEEING AN INITIATION INTO killing of america GRRRL PUNK/punk art SHORTS 1990-1998 THINGS VIOLENT EXHIBITIONS OF MACHINE PERFORMANCE 5:00 10:00 FILMMAKER IN PERSON! 10:00 10:00 FOLKTALES IN THE FOG 10:00 UNCLE SAM go down death EPHEMERA: SOCIAL IT CHANGED MY LIFE 10:00 MACHINES 7:30 She’s real (worse CHEBURASKA SHORTS than queer) midnight midnight DEATH PROMISE DIGITAL MAN 29 30 31 3:00 7:30 7:30 FIST CHURCH MAKE OUT WITH LITTLE FEET VIOLENCE 5:00 10:00 AN INITIATION INTO CYBERPUNK 10:00 VIOLENT EXHIBITIONS OF THE MYSTERY OF THE MACHINE PERFORMANCE 7:30 THRID PLANET UNCLE SAM

May 2016 SPeCTACLe • 124 S. 3RD St. On the cover: BROOKLYN, NY CHEBURASKA: Dir. Eduard Uspensky, 1969 5$ MOVIES • SPECTACLETHEATER.COM UNCLE SAM, Bill Lustig, 1996. EPHEMERA: SOCIAL MACHINES: Various, 1939-2008. IT CHANGED MY LIFE, Lucy Thane, 1992. CHILDREN ON FIRE 2: KIDS ON FIRER 4o4 FUTURE NOT FOUND: GRRRL GERMS: A VISUAL HISTORY OF UNCLE SAM: Dir. Bill Lustig, 1996. USA, 90 min. 5/2 10:00p • 5/21 10:00p • 5/24 10:00p • 5/29 7:30p CYBERWORLDS AND TERMINAL CASES RIOT GRRRL During the early 90s, humanity teetered on the verge of enormous innovations Originally coined by Olympia, WA-based zinesters and musicians Tobi Vail (Bikini It’s Fourth Of July Weekend, and the recently discovered corpse of Sgt. Sam Kill) and Molly Neuman (Bratmobile) to describe the core network of politically- Harper - killed by ‘friendly fire’ during the first Gulf War - is returned to his that would completely change the way we interacted with technology. This series looks at the lag between processing power and the half-digital future minded punk women in Olympia and DC, Riot Grrrl in its truest sense describes all-American hometown. But when Sam rises from the dead to punish the any do-it-yourself creative outlet of feminist fury: from cut-and-paste zines unpatriotic, only his young nephew and a bitter Korean War veteran (Soul icon we strove towards, a technical wonderworld still bound by wires and clunky physical machines. As we enter the 4th stage of Baudrillard’s full precession of to punk shows to the grainy, politically-charged Pixelvision and 16mm visual Isaac Hayes] can stop his red-blooded rampage. Draft dodgers, tax cheats, subversions of the underground female and queer filmmakers of the era. crooked politicians and flag-burners beware: UNCLE SAM wants you... DEAD! simulacra, let’s look back at our ham-fisted attempts to make man, machine and reality become virtually one. LITTLE FEET: Dir. Alexandre Rockwell, 2013. USA, 64 min. IT CHANGED MY LIFE: Dir. Lucy Thane, 1992. UK, 25 min + 1 hour additional footage. 5/1 5:00 PM • 5/13 7:30 PM • 5/17 7:30 PM • 5/23 10:00p 5/7 7:30p • 5/11 10:00p • 5/20 7:30p • 5/31 7:30p CYBERPUNK: Dir. Marianne Trench, 1990, USA, 60 min. SHE’S REAL (WORSE THAN QUEER): Dir. Lucy Thane, 1997. UK, 50 min. Determined to set their pet goldfish free, Lana and Nico embark on a magical 5/6 10:00p • 5/16 10:00p • 5/24 7:30p • 5/29 5:00p 5/4 10:00p • 5/13 10:00p • 5/17 10:00p • 5/26 10:00p urban odyssey from their Los Angeles home to the ocean. Their adventure, seen Itself an artifact of the time and aesthetic being documenting, CYBERPUNK With unlimited access and uncanny instincts, filmmaker Lucy Thane chronicled through the eyes of the brother/sister team, is filled with an array of wild and is a fun, highly stylized sampler capturing its eponymous subculture still Bikini Kill and Huggy Bear’s 1993 UK tour/media circus with a stockpile of sometimes frightening encounters! Little Feet’s cinematography shows the poetic coalescing. Featuring interviews with William Gibson, Timothy Leary, founder of borrowed film equipment. Spectacle is also pleased to premiere a selection side of Los Angeles one rarely sees and stands as an homage of sorts to the very VPL Research Jason Lanier, and encompassing musicians, animators, plastic of additional footage recently digitized by the Fales Collection at NYU. SHE’S first films shot in the city. surgeons, crafters, and self-proclaimed hackers, the movie shows and tells REAL (WORSE THAN QUEER), is the sequel, which follows Queercore punk and interspersed with then-cutting-edge CG animation and graphic effects. examines the idea of subcultures-within-subcultures. MAKE OUT WITH VIOLENCE: Dir. Deagol Brothers, 2008. USA, 105 min. 5/3 10:00p • 5/14 10:00p • 5/18 10:00p • 5/30 7:30p THIS IS NOT A TEST: SHORTS 1990-1998: Dir. Various, 1990-1998, USA, 88 min. EPHEMERA: SOCIAL MACHINES: Dir. Various, 1939-2008. USA, 75 min. Teeangers Patrick and Carol mourn the loss of their friend Wendy until they 5/7 10:00 PM • 5/19 7:30p • 5/23 7:30p 5/9 10:00p • 5/15 5:00p • 5/28 10:00p Frustrated within a mostly male college film program, Miranda July began placing discover her animated corpse. They search for ways of resurrecting her spirit or, Robo-human relations get a bad rap in media – if it’s not machines gaining open calls for female film work in Riot Grrrl zines nationwide. She would then failing that, satisfy their love between the living and the dead. sentience, rising up and brutally enslaving/destroying human oppressors, compile all of the submissions, record them to VHS, and send them back to the it’s some human going mad with technologically-enhanced power, with the filmmakers as a chainletter tape entitled “Big Miss Moviola.” The tapes included SOYUZMULTFILM ANIMATION SERIES: occasional cyborg killing spree or computer-to-human virus spreading. SOCIAL work by artists such as Mary Billyou and K8 Hardy. This program documents the MACHINES aims to correct this dystopian bias by highlighting decades of evolution of that filmic movement: from the disruptive, violent, and often hilarious CHILDREN ON FIRE IN THE USSR early films to the irreverent experiments of the videotape age. positive, if goofy and awkward, man-machine interaction. Soyuzmultfilm is an abbreviation of Union Children’s Animations, a state-run industry that employed over 700 skilled laborers in animation, stop-motion, GRRRL LOVE AND REVOLUTION: Dir. Abby Moser, 2011. USA, 42 min. and puppetry productions. Despite the extreme artistic repression of the day, AN INITIATION INTO VIOLENT EXHIBITIONS OF MACHINE WOMEN’S PUNK ART MAKING PARTY: Dir. Mary Billyou, 1996. USA, 33 min. animations were able to evade some of the adult rules and take on projects PERFORMANCE: THREE DECADES OF SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABS: 5/4 7:30 PM • 5/15 7:30p • 5/28 7:30p regardless of their commercial value. Soyuzmultfilm’s work has topped lots of Dir. Various, 1979-2015. USA, 75 min. Two documentaries of the collectives, meetings and events that united artists in best-of lists, imparting Russian storytelling with uniquely crafted animation. 5/20 10:00p • 5/26 7:30p • 5/31 10:00p New York and DC respectively. GRRL LOVE shows the challenges of maintaining For three decades, Survival Research Labs has awed and intimidated with large- DIY spaces within a nationally recognized Riot Grrrl movement, and WOMEN’S FOLKTALES IN THE FOG: USSR SHORTS scale, fantastically destructive mechanized performance art. Founded in 1978 by PUNK ART documents the experiences of six members of the beehive collective. HEDGEHOG IN THE FOG: Dir. Yuriy Norshteyn 1975. USSR, 11 min. Mark Pauline and joined by a larger organization of engineers, technicians, and TALE OF TALES: Dir. Yuriy Norshteyn 1979. USSR, 29 min. artists, SRL literally built a world with humanity marginalized as fragile spectator, SPECIAL EVENTS: BELOVED BEAUTY: Dir. Vladimir Degtyaryov, 1958. USSR, 45 min. completely irrelevant to the chaotic industrial maelstrom at hand. 5/2 7:30p • 5/14 7:30p • 5/18 7:30p • 5/22 5:00p FESTIVAL OF (IN)APPROPRIATION #8: Dir. Various, 2010-2014. 90 min. 5/12 7:30p and 10:00p • ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! In this series of USSR-era shorts, folk tales provide a story arc to express the HOLOGRAM MAN: Dir: Richard Pepin, 1995. USA, 101 min. complex question of what makes cultural identity. BELOVED BEAUTY delivers 5/6 MIDNIGHT • 5/21 MIDNIGHT The incorporation of already-existing media into new artworks generates the well-worn tale of a prince’s quest for a woman of exquisite beauty through LOS ANGELES, THE 21st CENTURY: Slash Gallagher (Evan Lurie), a novel juxtapositions and new meanings and ideas, often in ways entirely ornate stop-motion puppets. Norshteyn’s TALE OF TALES and HEDGEHOG IN revolutionary bomber locked in holographic stasis, finally gets a parole hearing. unrelated to the intentions of the original makers. Such new works are, in other THE FOG are award-winning shorts loved for their subtle emotional content, But when Gallagher’s corporate handlers get hacked, the vicious terrorist is words, “inappropriate.” Fortunately for our purposes, the past decade has untraditional storytelling, and uniquely expressed anthropomorphic animals. on the loose again – from prison to prism. Richard Pepin’s direct-to-video film witnessed the emergence of a wealth of new audiovisual elements available is a brain-flattening kaleidoscope of superhighway chases, dusty warehouse for appropriation into new works. In addition to official state and commercial CHEBURASKA: Dir. Eduard Uspensky, 1969, 1971, 1974. USSR, 58 min. explosions, shocking shootouts and gorgeously realized dystopian nightmares. archives, resources like vernacular collections, home movie repositories, and 5/6 7:30p • 5/9 7:30p • 5/22 7:30p This May, justice isn’t blind – it’s holographic. digital archives now also provide fascinating material to repurpose in ways that Just a regular story of a pipe-smoking, besuited Crocodile who posts a “seeking lend it new meaning and resonance. roommate” ad and pairs up with a creature that came out of a crate of oranges. The friendship of Cheburaska and Krokodil Gena flourishes and they meet other SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS: Dir. Sheila McLaughlin, 1987. USA. 95 mins. misfits in their various adventures. Based on children’s stories by Upensky, 5/25 8:00p • DIRECTOR IN PERSON • ONE NIGHT ONLY!!! CHEBURASKA has had an enduring appeal with Russian kids, as evidenced by Filmmaker Sheila McLaughlin will join us for a rare screening of her classic plush toys, Olympic mascots, and the use of Chebu as the Soyuzmultfilm logo. SHE MUST BE SEEING THINGS on 16mm film. A smitten couple is made distant after Agatha reads Jo’s diary, only to find the pages suggesting a decidedly THE MYSTERY OF THE THIRD PLANET: Dir. Roman Kachanov, 1981. USSR, 50 heterosexual past. A filmmaker herself, Jo is engrossed in the process making min. 5/3 7:30p • 5/11 7:30p • 5/21 7:30p • 5/30 10:00p of a movie-within-a-movie adaptation of Thomas de Quincy’s Catalina. Left to While the Jetson family was stuck in a well-manicured space metropolis dangle during the long and gnarly shoot, Agatha - the stable, sane one with the destined to bring about alcoholism and delinquency, two hairy Soviet captains boring job - begins surreptitiously seeing (or hallucinating?) her partner out and zoomed around the far reaches of space with a crafty and adventurous little girl. about enjoying the company of men. The plot is similar to something you’d find in Scooby-Doo, but the mysteries contained in the third planet elevate the story to very decent sci-fi. THREE DECADES OF SURVIVAL RESEARCH LABS, Dir. Various, 1979-2015. For more information on showtimes and events visit spectacletheater.com