Presented by Funhouse Cinema & Aurora Picture Show:
Bill Daniel of Funhouse Cinema, Austin and Aurora Picture Show present the second of four screenings curated by Bill Daniel for APS. “Pseudo Documentary Film Jam” highlights three films that examine, distort and subvert documentary conventions, in order to tell real stories.
“RocketKitKongoKit” is Craig Baldwin’s rapid-fire, speculative found footage co-inventive, critical and self-reflexive ways.
Elizabeth Subrin’s “Shulie” is a fascinating document of historical reconstruction. Subrin has remade ingenious reports on the history of Zaire’s bizarre contract with a West German rocket firm. Baldwin’s dense collage of appropriated material illuminates a history of neocolonialism, and proposes an apocalyptic outcome.
In “Energy and How “Energy and How To Get It”, photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank, screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer and filmmaker Gary Hill team up to create a story where fact and fiction are blended through a combination of cinema verité documentary and loosementary and loosely constructed dramatic vignettes. The magical dimension that is created between these two modes becomes a real life stage for the comic/tragic story of a modern day mad scientist. Starring the Tesla coil-building Robert Golka as himself, William Burroughs as the energy czar, and poet John Giorno in a supporting role.
Visuals available upon request
Suggested donation $5.
Please arrive early, seating is limited.