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Shock Corridor Cinema: Barbie Dolls & Negativland
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| alan kollins | SHOCK CORRIDOR CINEMA THURSDAY, MARCH 13TH, 8PM @THE FIFTY FITY ARTS COLLECTIVE 416 Craigflower/ $2 383-5144 x1882 "SUPERSTAR:THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY" (1987, 43 min). Todd Haynes (Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven) With Barbie dolls as its principal actors, Superstar portrays the life of 70s pop star Karen Carpenter and her battle with anorexia. The film cleverly links this disease with celebrity culture (and specifically the pressures placed on women within the parasitic business of popular music). Beyond its polemic, the film is a playful tribute to ephemeral films, the 70s rock film, and the 50s melodrama, a genre Haynes has been exploring in his work ever since. Haynes was unable to secure the rights to the Carpenters' music he "borrows" throughout the film; Richard Carpenter filed an injunction that kept Superstar from public release. Even without Carpenter's court order, the film would probably have been pulled by the notoriously litigious Mattel, the makers of Barbie. Note: the copy being screened is a 16mm transfer to VCD, the sharpest copy i have yet to see of this notoriously bootlegged film. "SONIC OUTLAWS" (1995, 75 min.) Craig Baldwin (Tribulation 99, Rocket Kit Kongo Kit) Copyright lawsuits involving music have been based on the largely mythical concept of originality. The process of making music necessarily involves recycling notes, chords, and lyrics. The attempt to carve out areas of ownership (chord progressions, refrains, a riff) within the finite musical landscape immediately gets bogged down in murky distinctions. Does borrowing a one-line lyric constitute copyright infringement? How about two lines? What happens when the songwriter wasn't even aware s/he was copying another song? Is sampling legally different than simple imitation? (Madeleine Baran) Sonic Outlaws explores these issues by focusing on musicians who construct their work out of so-called "stolen" material. Negativland's much publicized legal battles with Island records over the bands album title "U2" is the central kernel here. Other musicians like John Oswald (plunderphonics) and the Tape-Beatles are granted time to voice their analysis of the music industry, copyright laws and the spirit of their individual works. Presented in in a hybrid style, mixing interviews, media images, and lots of great music, Baldwin's infamous agit-prop film aesthetics makes the point of suggesting culture is a free for all as it strips away the idea of intellectual property (most of the film is shot in16mm, but sections of the material invokes the beloved Fisher-Price PXL-2000 toy video camera). An entertaining romp through the postmodern landscape of sampling culture and the sound scavengers who ensure its existence. Not To Be missed! - Sat, 8 Mar 2003 4:21pm | ||
| Anonymous | this looks great. what's the fifty fifty like? - Mon, 10 Mar 2003 4:25am | ||
| 5050lurver | The fifty fifty is cold and ugly, thank you, but the moovies look khoul. - Tue, 11 Mar 2003 4:42pm | ||
| arts administrator | Although the 50-50 will always be ugly, it will warm up soon. Also, it was not cold on the beach boy tribute night. It was warm, like in Hawaii. - Tue, 11 Mar 2003 10:31pm | ||
| film programer | no colder than the drive-in . . .space heaters will be on hand. - Wed, 12 Mar 2003 2:24am | ||
| raphael nostos | Not to mention that on alternating thursdays there is the wildly popular chess night with warm-you-up pancakes! Coming in the summer: mexi-cakes! - Wed, 12 Mar 2003 9:11pm | ||
| Anonymous | . . .oooh. mexi-cakes. will these come with tasty icing? - Thu, 13 Mar 2003 2:56am | ||
| film programer | thanks to all those who attended . . .great to see enthusiasm for these obscure titles. . .next week's program will not dissapoint. stay tuned for additional info. - Thu, 20 Mar 2003 4:44am | ||
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