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All programs on Tuesdays at 9pm at Collective Unconscious
145 Ludlow St., NYC

$5 Admission

Contact:

Brian Frye
Cooper Station Box 499
NYC, 10276-0499
718.706.6697
[fryebrian@hotmail.com]

Bradley Eros
123 Essex St., Box 53
NYC, 10002
718.599.0751

August

1 AUGUST - ASSORTED WEIRDNESS FROM THE ARCHIVES OF MIKE OLSHAN
Park Slope's foremost film collector, Mike Olshan, presents the first in a series of "never-seen-that-before" films culled from his carefully constructed collection. This introduction to the strange and wonderful world of Mr. Olshan includes: ROOTIE KAZOOTIE (an incredibly bad TV show which hoped to compete with Howdy Doody, no gem itself...), THE DELINQUENT, THE HIPSTER AND THE SQUARE ("The title says it all for this Sunday-morning 'think show' produced by the well-meaning National Council of Churches. Music by the Max Roach Quintet."), TEN LITTLE INDIANS ("An incredibly bad quiz show in which every imaginable production disaster occurs, including miscues, dead air time and dangling mikes. Hurts to watch."), MUSICAL RACE INSULTS (some of the silver screens most mortifying moments of condescension.) and probably more... Mr. Olshan will be on hand to introduce the films and discuss his investigations into the intersection of ideology and the cinema.

8 AUGUST - RBMC STROLL-IN, PART I (DEMON LOVER DIARY)
For the first of our proto-drive-in summer features, the RBMC presents Joel DeMott's DEMON LOVER DIARY (1979), with Jeff Kreines and Mark Rance. In Joel's own words, "Don and Jerry, factory workers who grew up on comic books and B-movies, are fulfilling a lifetime dream: they're producing their own low-budget horror movie. Jeff and Joel, lovers and cinema-verité filmmakers, and a friend of theirs named Mark have come out to Michigan to help the dream come true: they're shooting The Demon Lover for Don and Jerry. Two weeks after production starts, Jeff and Joel and Mark are fleeing Michigan, bullets ricocheting off the car, lives and a complete record of the events in jeopardy. The subject of this film isn't just the ups-and-downs of making a horror movie, it's about cultural snobbery, the disintegration of friendship, puppy love, violence, boredom, money... a diary about encountering the Midwest when you're from someplace else." - Joel De Mott

15 AUGUST - RBMC STROLL IN, PART II (IT CAME FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE CHARLES...)
For this second proto-drive-in event, we present an "outdoor" screening of BEACH BEAST by Bill Storz, a super-8mm feature monster movie starring members of the Boston scene, including the inestimable Luther Price, who sings "Walk Through This World" over the opening credits. Mr. Storz is currently engaged in a national tour, and will be alighting in NYC, print in hand, just in time for the show. Don't miss this milestone in small-gauge filmmaking!

22 AUGUST - SCIENCE PROJECTS
"This program of films explores the exploratory nature of experimental film. Although these films differ in their modes of collection, measurement, and organization, they all play with and around the calculatory nature of cine-mathematics. From the speed of light to logging dates, from figuring to ornithogs, from palindromes to rods and cones. Films to include: The 8.3 Minute Film - Kenneth Eisenstein, 01-03-73 - Christopher Bravo, Recollection - Jeffrey Johnson, Not A Drop - Jason Livingston, On the Various Nature of Things - Deborah Stratman, Sisyphys' Cinema - Tom Comeford, The One Hundred Yard Dash Film - Kenneth Eisenstein, from boys to rollercoasters - Rebecca Meyers, If Not Here Then Where - Christopher Bravo, This Film Ends at Frame 2290 - Gemma Ryan. Quite a few filmmakers will be around.


29 AUGUST - IN MEMORIAM, SIDNEY PETERSON (1905-2000)
Carrying on the brand-new tradition of memorial programs for recently deceased filmmakers, tonight the RBMC honors one of its patron saints, the great Sidney Peterson, who shuffled off this mortal coil on April 24 of this year. The program will include Peterson's own films (THE PETRIFIED DOG, among others), as well as others related to them, and various ephemera. Don't miss this chance to honor the inventor and most-esteemed practitioner of the crypto-hermeneutics of the cinema.

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