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Shock Corridor Cinema presents, SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY +2. Tuesday, July 8th @The Fifty Fifty
| Message Board > Up n' Coming! (aka Shameless Promotion) > Shock Corridor Cinema presents, SUPERSTAR: THE KAREN CARPENTER STORY +2. Tuesday, July 8th @The Fifty Fifty |
| film geek User Info... | SHOCK CORRIDOR CINEMA PRESENTS: NARRATIVE SHORTS FROM THE AVANT - GARDE TUESDAY, JULY 8TH, 9PM @THE FIFTY FIFTY ARTS COLLECTIVE 416 Craigflower Rd. $2 Featuring a collection of influential underground shorts, all linked by their interest in exploring popular culture and sexual identity. Unlike most avant-garde/experimental film from the U.S., all three titles experiment with narrative structures familiar to mainstream audiences. Perhaps this is explains a large part of their appeal. back by popular demand! 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, more specifically, the pressures placed on women within the parasitic business of popular music and the suburban family. Beyond its politics, the film is a playful tribute to medical films, the 70s rock film, and the 50s melodrama, a genre Haynes has been exploring in his work ever since producing this work, his second short film. SUPERSTAR was never released commercially as 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. SCORPIO RISING (1964, 28 min). Kenneth Anger (Fireworks, author of the book Hollywood Babylon) Perhaps the most infamous work of the American avant-garde (it certainly shares similar accolades with Maya Daren's MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON and Stan Brakhage's DOGSTAR MAN). Notorious for its subversion of 60s mainstream music, SCORPIO RISING exposes and interprets motorcycle culture through a hybrid of cultural icons (children's toys, Hollywood film clips, religious artifacts etc.) and stock footage in a way that demands the viewer read them in new and provoking ways. At times the film confronts America's fetish with automobile culture only to give way to a hyper masculinity that is informed by Hollywood film, popular music and biker gang rituals. The film's backdrop of early 60s popular music (Bobby Vinton, The Angles, Elvis Preseley, et al.) works to further interrogate the viewer's relationship with cultural iconography as seemingly innocent pop plays out as a marker of deviant, at times comical signifiers. The musical landscape of SCORPIO RISING is most significant in predetermining the aesthetic and representational forms that would eventually inform MTV rock videos. LOOKING FOR LANGSTON (1989, 45 min) Isaac Julien (Young Soul Rebels) Julien's best known works are biographical meditations on the lives of influential black authors. Foremost among them is LOOKING FOR LANGSTON, widely considered a founding text of New Queer Cinema which examines the life, politics and sexuality of Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes. The lush black-and-white film alternates between documentary-like realism and dreamy enactments of imagined scenes from the work of Hughes and others. The film's aesthetics are simply gorgeous! Although reinacting scenes from the Harlem Renasiance, this film is not a history lesson but rather a provocative consideration of how identity is constructed through colonial inscriptions of the past; Langston Hughes' closeted homosexuality and Black bodies in general become a marker of marginal histories and questionable use of Black Masculinity in Western culture. Ultimately, LOOKING FOR LANGSTON creates a homoerotic gaze that is both fluid and confrontational prompting us to consider the way in which construct our understanding of race and sexuality. Note: Like SUPERSTAR this film is difficult to track down. - Sat, 5 Jul 2003 2:43am | ||
| ziggy User Info... | awesome! i've been searching for this film for years. you must keep this cinema nite going. - Mon, 7 Jul 2003 1:16am | ||
| film programer User Info... | will do if you keep coming out. we're working on new and improved surround sound - should work well for this program which showcases a lot pop music. - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 1:39am | ||
| Gman User Info... | Re: The Sound Our experiment with The Perfect Storm was a resounding success. ReSOUNDing. Get it? Shit, Gman - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 12:58pm | ||
| film programer User Info... | my apologies. i'll be sure to fasten my seatbelt for tonite's bass heavy rendition of the Carpenter's "rainy days and mondays" - Tue, 8 Jul 2003 8:44pm | ||
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