[Frameworks] The Dancing for Dara Show (Magic Lantern Cinema, Providence, RI)

Mon Mar 21 22:07:30 CDT 2011

Hi Frameworks,

For those of you in the New England area, see the info below for the upcoming Magic Lantern Cinema show in Providence, RI -- a set of contemporary videos being screened as a benefit for Dara Greenwald.  More info here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148436028554570

Join us!

Josh Guilford
Providence

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Magic
Lantern Cinema Presents: The Dancing for Dara Show

Wednesday March 23

9:30 pm

Cable Car Cinema

204 South Main Street

Providence, RI

$5 admission or $10 special donation

Video Data Bank has assembled a video program composed of work by
internationally-recognized artists who believe that art and other forms of
expression can be a means toward a more equitable society.  The works from this program range from
the documentation of creative street actions to fictionalized histories and
experimental documentaries, which together illustrate how contemporary video
serves as an important site for creative approaches to politics and extremely
serious fun.  Screened to much
acclaim in cities across the country in the last few months, this program can
be said to embody the sentiment that if there isn't dancing during the
revolution, we don't want to join in. 
Come join us for Dancing For Dara, a screening composed of beautiful,
radiant things that shine in the face of exploitation, incarceration, illness,
environmental destruction, and prejudice. 

This program is a benefit screening for Dara Greenwald, video artist,
former guest curator of Magic Lantern, and activist, who is currently battling
cancer. Through her work, she has met and befriended hundreds of people working
in the creative and activist communities over the years.  The artists assembled in this program
are only a few of the friends that are coming together to help Dara and her
partner, Josh Macphee, get through this very difficult time.  The enthusiasm and dedication of her
community is a testament to her generous spirit, her sense of humor, and how
important she is to us as a friend, organizer, and fellow-artist. 

ALL proceeds from this program will go directly to Dara to help her in her
battle with cancer.  Unable to work
during her treatments, these funds will help to pay Dara's medical expenses not
covered by her insurance, her daily living expenses, and enable Josh to take
more time off of work to be a full-time caregiver. 

For more information about Dara's art and curatorial work: http://www.daragreenwald.com/

For more information about how to help Dara: http://healdarag.org/about/

FEATURING: Pink Bloque, Dancing in
the Street (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally), October 2003, video,
8:00; Ben Coonley, One Trick Pony, 2002, video,  4:50; Tara Matiek, Operation Invert, 2003, video, 12:30;
Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, Kuleshov Sukiyaki, 2004, video, 2:58;
Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos, Suggested Photo Spots, 1997, video, 10:00; Jim
Finn, Sharambaba, 1999, video, 3:00; Jem Cohen, Little Flags, 2000, video,
6:30; Paul Chan, Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law
and Poetry, 2006, video, 17:30; Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson, The Package,
2010, video, 12:00.

TRT: 75 minutes

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THE PROGRAM:

Pink Bloque, Dancing in the Street (Domestic Violence Awareness Month Rally),
October 2003, video, 8:00

The Pink Bloque (2001-2005) was a Chicago-based radical feminist dance
troupe dedicated to challenging the white supremacist capitalist patriarchal
empire one street dance party at a time. 
In October 2003, the Chicago Metropolitan
Battered Women’s Network, a coalition of more than 100 service providers in the
Chicago area who assist domestic violence victims, asked Pink Bloque to
participate in an awareness event. 
Unlike dancing bears, robot men, and circus
clowns, they did not perform on cue, but this video documents how they joined
in the spectacle. -- Jane Bryan Ball

Ben Coonley, One Trick Pony, 2002, video, 4:50

"Film nerds who haven’t seen Ben Coonley’s “One Trick Pony” are in for a
real treat tonight. In this almost five-minute-long 2002 short, a toy pony—yes,
you read that right—offers dance instructions for the Texas two-step. If that
sounds a little simple, it is, but this cheeky short can still catch you
off-guard." Bret McCabe

Tara Matiek, Operation Invert, 2003, video, 12:30

Are gender outlaws considered the new biological terrorists seeking weapons of
mass bodily destruction? OPERATION INVERT compares the different regulations
mediating botox-related plastic surgery and gender re-assignment “sex change.”-
t.m.

Caspar Stracke & Gabriela Monroy, Kuleshov Sukiyaki, 2004, video, 2:58

This video is based on the music piece "Systole No 2" by Terre
Thaemlitz. Analog to this "systolic" sound collage, Kuleshov Sukiyaki
contains a patchwork of clips from 70's erotica and soft porn movies which
highlight similar emotional moments, including the befores and afters of orgasm
scenes. c.s. & g.m.

Melinda Stone & Igor Vamos, Suggested Photo Spots, 1997, video, 10:00

Using irony as a weapon, this documentary records the placement of over fifty
"suggested photo spot" signs for tourists across North America, at
such locations as military test sites and industrial excavation centres. Other
"scenic" areas: the fence running along the USA/Mexican border on
Tijuana Beach, which extends well into the ocean; an abandoned oil drilling site
in Utah; the New York City sludge depository (situated in Texas since there is
no space left for all the sludge engulfing New York); and the waste water
treatment facility of the Eastman Kodak Company in Rochester, New York.-
Vincent Bonin

Jim Finn, Sharambaba, 1999, video, 3:00

A young communist girl named Sharambaba resists her suitor in a carriage. She
speaks of what he calls her "fantasy world". All of the dialogue is
played backwards with accommodating subtitles. (vdb)

Jem Cohen, Little Flags, 2000, video, 6:30

Cohen shot Little Flags in black and
white on the streets of lower Manhattan during an early-'90s military
ticker-tape parade and edited the footage years later. The crowd noises fade
and Cohen shows the litter flooding the streets as the urban location looks
progressively more ghostly and distant from the present. Everyone loves a
parade—except for the dead. (vdb)

Paul Chan, Untitled Video on Lynne Stewart and Her Conviction, The Law and
Poetry, 2006, video, 17:30

Untitled... is a video portrait of
Lynne Stewart who was convicted of providing material support for a terrorist
conspiracy. She is the first lawyer to be convicted of aiding terrorism in the
United States.. The video focuses on the relationship between the language of
poetry and the language of the law. Stewart speaks both languages, and employs
poetry as a "knotting point" to connect ideas of beauty and justice
for juries and judges alike. The film takes Stewart's understanding of poetry
and the law as a departure point to explore the possibilities of a poetics
capable of articulating the pressures of terror and justice. (vdb)

Dara Greenwald with Ona Mirkinson, The Package, 2010, video, 12:00

This video explores questions concerning political repression by looking at the
activity of militant care as expressed through writing, visiting, and
advocating for political prisoners. 

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Magic Lantern Cinema is Graciously Funded by the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for
Modern Culture and Media @ Brown University.  All of the work for this screening has been donated by the
folks at Video Data Bank in Chicago and the individual artists.  Thank you to the Cable Car Cinema,
Meredith Stern, Joshua Guilford, Rachael Rakes, Rebekah Rutkoff, and Abina Manning
for your generous support and donations that have made this possible.

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