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Cultural Infidels: Film and Performance for Consenting Adults 3-31 January 1990 Cultural Infidels: Film and Performance for Consenting Adults Cultural Infidels: Film and Performance for Consenting Adults 3-31 January 1990 Cultural Infidels: Film and Performance for Consenting Adults 3-31 January 1990 Wednesday, 3 January Friday, 19 January Beauty #2 and Kiss (films) Looking for Langston (film) Andy Warhol Isaac Julien Flaming Creatures (film) Friday, 5 January Jack Smith lonesome Cowboys and Empire (films) John Kelly (performance) Andy Warhol Saturday, 20 January Saturday, 6 January Shelley Hirsch & David Weinstein Lonesome Cowboys and Empire (films) (performance) Andy Warhol John Kelly (performance) Tuesday, 9 January Tuesday, 23 January My Hustler and Sleep (films) Flesh and Eat (films) Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Wednesday, 10 January Wednesday, 24 January My Hustler and Sleep (films) Flesh and Eat (films) Andy Warhol Andy Warhol Thursday, 11 January Thursday, 25 January Karen Finley (performance) Douglas Dunn (dance) Friday, 12 January Friday, 26 January Dick (film) Three from Apparatus (films) Jo Menell Guillermo G6mez-Pefta (performance) Urinal (film) John Greyson Saturday, 27 January Karen Finley (performance) Kathy Acker (reading) Guillermo G6mez-Pefta (performance) Saturday, 13 January OWT (music) Tuesday, 30 January Karen Finley (performance) The Chelsea Girls (film) Andy Warhol Tuesday, 16 January Vinyl and Blow Job (films) Wednesday, 31 January Andy Warhol The Chelsea Girls (film) Andy Warhol Wednesday, 17 January Vinyl and Blow Job (films) Andy Warhol Cultural Infidels is supported in part with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Thursday, 18 January Arts. Promotional assistance provided by the John Kelly (performance) Twin Cities Reader. Andy Warhol Films Beauty #2 and Kiss 7 and 9:15 pm Vinyl and Blow Job Wednesday, 3 January 7 and 9 pm Tuesday and Wednesday, 16 and 17 January Beauty #2 1965, 16 mm-silent, 70 minutes segment Vinyl screened from the 105 minute original. 1965, 16 mm-sound, 64 minutes. Directed by Directed by Andy Warhol; writer and assistant Andy Warhol; scenario: Ronald Tavel; camera: director: Chuck Wein. Featuring: Edie Bud Wirtschafter. Featuring: Gerard Malanga, Sedgwick, Gino Peschio, Gerard Malanga and Edie Sedgwick, Ondine, Tosh Carillo, Larry Chuck Wein. Latreille, Jacques Potin, John MacDermott. Kiss Blow Job 1963, 16 mm-silent, 58 minutes, screened 16 1963, 16 mm-silent, 35 minutes. Directed by frames per second). Directed by Andy Warhol; Andy Warhol. Actors unknown. featuring Naomi Levine, Ed Sanders, Rufus Collins, Gerard Malanga, Baby Jane Holzer, John Palmer, Andrew Meyer, Freddy Herko, Flesh and Eat Johnny Dodd, Charlotte Gilbertson, Phillip van 7 and 9:15pm Renselet, Pierre Restany, Marisol. Tuesday and Wednesday, 23 and 24 January Flesh Lonesome Cowboys and Empire 1968, 87 minutes, color. Directed by Andy 8pm Warhol; featuring Maurice Bardell, Harry Friday and Saturday, 5 and 6 January Brown, John Christian, Jackie Curtis, Joe Dallesandro, Patti D'Arbanville, Candy Darling, Lonesome Cowboys Geri Miller, Geraldine Smith, Louis Waldron 1967, 16 mm-sound, color, 110 minutes. Eat , Directed by Andy Warhol; featuring Taylor 1963, 16 mm-silent screened at 16 frames per Mead, Viva, Louis Waldron, Eric Emerson, Joe second, 45 minutes. Directed by Andy Warhol; Dallesandro, Julian Burroughs, Alan Midgette, featuring Robert Indiana. Tom Hompertz, Frances Francine. Empire 1964, 16 mm-silent, 48 minute excerpt from the The Chelsea Girls eight hour original, screened at 16 frames per 7pm second. Directed by Andy Warhol. Filmed Tuesday and Wednesday, 20 and 31 January June 25, 1964 from the 44th floor of the Time­ Life Building. Arranged by Henry Romney; co­ The Chelsea Girls directed by John Palmer; cinematography by 1966, 16 mm-sound, 210 minutes. Directed by Jonas Mekas. Andy Warhol; featuring Angelina "Pepper" Davis, Eric Emerson, Patrick Fleming, Ed Hood, Gerard Malanga, Marie Menken, Mario My Hustler and Sleep Montez, Ondine, Brigid Polk, Rene Ricard, 7 and 9:15pm Ronna, Ingrid Superstar, International Velvet, Tuesday and Wednesday, 9 and 10 January Mary Woronov. My Hustler "With film you just turn on the camera and 1965, 16 mm-sound, 67 minutes. Directed by photograph something. I leave the camera Chuck Wein; featuring Paul America, Ed Hood, running until it runs out of film because that John MacDermott, Genevieve Charbin, Joseph way I can catch people being themselves. It's Campbell, Dorothy Dean. better to act naturally than to set up a scene Sleep and act like someone else. You get a better 1963, 16mm-silent, 42 minute excerpt from the picture of people being themselves instead of six hour original screened at 16 frames per trying to act like they're themselves." second. Directed by Andy Warhol; featuring -Andy Warhol John Giorno. All Warhol films will be presented in the Walker Art Center Auditorium. Karen Finley We Keep Our Victims Ready 8pm Thursday, 11 January 10 pm Friday and Saturday, 12 and 13 January Walker Art Center Auditorium We Keep Our Victims Ready is written, performed, and directed by Karen Finley Dick and Urinal 8pm Friday, 12 January Walker Art Center Auditorium Dick Directed by Jo Menell 1989, 15 minutes; original score by John Cale. Urinal Directed by John Greyson 1988, 100 minutes; Camera: Adam Swica, Almerinda Travassos; Sound: Marg Moores, Bill Lasovich; Editors: David Mcintosh, John Greyson; Assistant Director: Leena Raudvee; Set Design: Colin Campbell. Cast: Pauline Carey (Frances Loring), Paul Bettis (Sergei Eisenstein), George Spelvin (Langston Hughes), Keltie Creed (Florence Wyle), Olivia Rojas (Frida Kahlo), David Gonzales (Yukio Mishima) Karl Beveridge (Sergeant Smith), Clive Robertson (Inspector Jones), Lance Eng (Dorian Gray) OWT Zeena Parkins and David Linton 8pm Saturday, 13 January Walker Art Center Auditorium Zeena Parkins, electric harp David Linton, amplified drum All compositions are by Zeena Parkins and David Linton. Titles of works in this program will be announced from the stage. Good as Gold, the debut album by OWT is available on Homestead Records. John Kelly Looking for Langston and Born with the Moon in Cancer Flaming Creatures 8pm 8pm Thursday, 18 January Friday, 19 January 10 pm Ruby's Cabaret Friday and Saturday 19 and 20 January Looking for Langston Ruby's Cabaret Directed by Isaac Julien 1989, 42 minutes. Producer: Nadine Marsh­ Edwards, Director of Photography: Nina Born with the Moon in Cancer Kellgren, Art Direction: Derek Brown, Editor: D'Amor Sull 'Ali Rosee Robert Hargreaves. Featuring poetry by Essex Verdi Hemphill and music by Blackberri. Cast: Ben Ellison (Alex), Matthew Baido (Beauty). John 0 He's Mild Wilson (Gary), Akim Mogaji (James). Dencil Se Tu M'Ami, Se Sospiri Williams (Marcus), Guy Burgess (Dean), Simon Pergolesi Fogg (Jez), James Dublin (Carlos), Harry Donaldson (leatherboy). Pigskin Option Habanera Flaming Creatures Bizet Directed by Jack Smith 1963, 45 minutes, 16 mm-sound Burning The Candle Stride Ia Vam pa "It's very interesting being legendary when Verdi you can't even make a living and the public's never heard of you." Death of Dagmar -Jack Smith Arabian Dance Tchaikowsky Shelley Hirsch and Spring Lake David Weinstein River Joni Mitchell 8pm Saturday, 20 January I Have Become Lost to the World Ruby's Cabaret lch Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen Mahler Shelley Hirsch, vocals/texts David Weinstein, sampling and keyboards Here and Now Mon Coeur S'Ouvre a ta Voix Saint-Saens Klezmart (a song based on Yiddish dance music) Born with the Moon in Cancer begins with a Ball and Chain blindfolded young man, born into a world of (an urban-ethnic conflagration) myriad options. The downward pointed fingers represent the here and now; the cradle pose, Bonbons his childhood and innocent nature; the angular (a series of miniatures) arms, the adolescent into manhood; and the wings, the option to take flight into the Power Muzak unknown. Born with the Moon in Cancer was (celebration and subversion of sentimentality premiered in New York at Performance Space for voice and tape) 122 in June of 1986. This April, it will travel to Caracus and Bogota. Special thanks to Art Self-Interrupting Waltzes Matters, Inc., and Fernando Torm. (solo keyboards) Haiku Lingo (an eccentric musical travelogue) Douglas Dunn Three from Apparatus Haole (1988) 8pm 8pm Friday 26 January Thursday, 25 January Walker Art Center Auditorium Walker Art Center Auditorium He Once Was Choreographed and performed by Douglas Directed and written by Mary Hestand Dunn 1989, 15 minutes, color. Cinematographer: Steve Kazmierski; Production Designer: David Nelson; Original Music: Alan Tubbs; Editor: Selections from music composed by Niles Barry Elsworth. Cast: Todd Adams (Davey), Sal Eldrege and lan Tattersall; Brian Eno; Thoinot Barone (Dad), Susan Norman (Sally), Emma Arbeau; Claude Debussy; Bob Dylan; Giacomo Strahs (Mom), Melissa Gardner (Shirley), Todd Puccini; Francesco Cavalli; Captain Tobias Haynes (Randy), Julia Haltigan (the Bear); Hume; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and Charles Voices: Cyril Autin, Alan Tubbs, George Kaipo Wittman, Susan Norman, Melissa Gardner, Rob LaBelle. Mitchell Bogard, lighting design La Divina Directed by Brooke Dammkoehler Haole, taken from a Hawaiian word referring to 1989, 33 minutes. Screenplay: Maria Rainer someone who is not Hawaiian, is a series of von Liliencron; Cinematographer: Jacques solos for dancer/choreographer Douglas Dunn. Boyreau; Film Editor: Esther Duran. Cast: The dance covers a wide range of material Michelle Sullivan (La Divina), Christopher from pure movement studies to outrageously Renstrom (The Male Matinee Idol), Valda humorous character
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