[Frameworks] David Domingo (aka Stanley Sunday) US tour - super 8 from Spain!

[Adam Hyman]

David Domingo tours the next two weeks, appearing at Anthology in NY, Los
Angeles Filmforum; Cinema Project in Portland OR; and Northwest Film Forum
in Seattle.  Catch him if you can!


Here is the Filmforum focused email.  Anthology is April 21; Cinema Project
is April 25; NW Film Forum is April 28.


Sunday, April 24, 2016, 7:30pm
Los Angeles Filmforum presents
David Domingo: A Super 8 Odyssey
At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles
CA 90028
 
David Domingo in person from Spain!  All Los Angeles premieres!
 
This spring, David Domingo, one of Spain’s most important underground
filmmakers, embarks on his first U.S. tour, organized by Los Angeles
Filmforum.  He is presenting his unique super-8 films (in super-8mm!) with
us this evening. In his films, Domingo, aka Stanley Sunday lets his
imagination run wild and exposes his own fantastic universe through a highly
iconoclast and hilarious associative cascade. His personal imagery includes
a series of popular artifacts and icons such as Disney films, Michael
Jackson, picture-card albums, comic-book superheroes, cassettes… There is
also a homoerotic imagery and a series of recurring motifs with an explicit
sexual symbology, such as the phallic Frankfurt Weiner, which has become his
trademark.  By combining footage taken from classic films or B-movies with
his own shootings, and abstract moments with life-action scenes played by
his own “star-system”, David Domingo deconstructs normal hierarchies and
cause-effect approaches in order to generate a continuous flow of images
which create surprising and enigmatic associations.
 

Tickets: $10 general; $6 students/seniors; free for Filmforum members.

Available in advance from Brown Paper Tickets at http://daviddomingo.bpt.me
or at the door.

 

Made possible through the generous support of Acción Cultural Española
(AC/E) <http://www.accioncultural.es>

 

 
David Domingo has additional screenings at Anthology Film Archives, New York
<http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/calendar?view=list&month=0
4&year=2016#showing-45565> ; Cinema Project, Portland OR
<https://cinemaproject.org/archive/screenings/2016/spring/a-super-8-odyssey-
films-of-david-domingo> ; and Northwest Film Forum, Seattle
<https://www.nwfilmforum.org/live/page/calendar/3886> .

 

Special thanks to José Manuel Gómez Vidal, Gloria Vilches, Mia Ferm,
Courtney Sheehan, Jed Rapfogel

 
Screening:
A Super 8 Odyssey: A program of David Domingo’s splendorous Super 8 films
 
Súper 8 (Super 8) (1996, color, sound, 7:44)
 
La mansión acelerada (The Speedy Mansion) (1997, b&w, sound, 10 min.)
 
Desayunos y meriendas (Breakfast and Snacks) (2002, color, sound, 7 min.)
 
Rayos y centellas (What the…!) (2004, color, sound, 3:52)
 
Película sudorosa (Sweaty Movie) (2009, color/b&w, sound, 18 min.)
 
A Movie that Portrays the Wonders of the World as Seen Through the Eyes of a
Cat (Disney Attraction Highlights Nº 1) (2009, color/b&w, sound, 5 min.)
 
David Domingo (aka Stanley Sunday, aka Davidson) was born in Valencia in
1973. He is currently based in Barcelona. Through 18 short films, 3
feature-length videos (including his personal vision of Disney´s Bambi and
The Exorcist. The Musical), plenty of music videos for independent bands,
crazy live performances of Super 8 and 16 mm screenings, and his
quinquennial fanzine “One day in the life of Jonas Mekas”, he has become one
of the main underground film makers in Spain.  In his early days he just
used a VHS camera and player to make remakes, found footage films and
homemade short films starred by his sister and grandmother. However, he soon
turned to Super8, the format most of his work is filmed on.  He shows a deep
knowledge of avant-garde and experimental film tradition, paying homage to
the films by Bruce Conner, Andy Warhol, Iván Zulueta, Kenneth Anger or the
Kuchar Brothers through quotations and references.
After broadening his horizons through the incursion in 16 mm filmmaking,
more recently he has started to use digital technology, which has enabled
him to go beyond by finding new textures and possibilities.
David Domingo’s films have been screened and exhibited in some of the main
museums, art centers and film festivals in Spain, such as Xcèntric (the
cinema of the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona), Museo Nacional
Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo and La Casa Encendida
in Madrid, Centro Galego de Artes da Imaxe and S(8) Mostra de cine
periférico in Coruña, Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of
Catalonia or Valencia´s Festival Cinema Jove.
The program “A Super 8 Odyssey” shows his most emblematic Super 8 films,
starting with his acclaimed first short film, Super 8 (1996), which was
chosen as part of the traveling film program “From ecstasy to rapture. 50
years of the other Spanish cinema”, curated by the Contemporary Culture
Center from Barcelona (CCCB), and screened at the ACMI (Australian Centre
for the Moving Image, Melbourne, Australia), Anthology Film Archives (NYC,
USA), National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA), Tiff Cinematheque
(Toronto, Canada), Pacific Cinematheque (Vancouver, Canada), Národní filmový
archiv in Prague (Czech Republic), Jeu de Paume (Paris, France), Tate Modern
(London, UK), Wro Art Center (Wroclaw, Poland), or National Gallery of Art
(Vilnius, Lituania), amongst many other venues.  www.stanleysunday.com
<http://www.stanleysunday.com>
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This program is supported by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission; the Department of Cultural
Affairs, City of Los Angeles; and Bloomberg Philanthropies. We also depend
on our members, ticket buyers, and individual donors.

 

Los Angeles Filmforum is the city’s longest-running organization dedicated
to weekly screenings of experimental film, documentaries, video art, and
experimental animation. 2016 is our 41st year.
 

Coming Soon to Los Angeles Filmforum:

April 24 - David Domingo, super 8 from Spain, at the Egyptian Theatre

May 12 – Tacita Dean, at MOCA

May 15 – To Be Announced


Memberships available, $70 single, $115 dual, or $50 single student
Contact us at lafilmforum at yahoo.com.
Find us online at http://lafilmforum.org.
Become a fan on Facebook and follow us on Twitter @LosAngFilmforum!

 

 
 


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