Ray Pride

* = recommended

All showings are at the Landmark Century. Many filmmakers will appear.

Fri 29

*Final Exams: From Underground U.

Eight films by and for film students, drawing from often anonymous student films of the last thirty years. 8:30.

For Those About To Rock

Shorts about music, including Deron Gram's "Six Feet Underground"; Laura Kranin's "Cortlandt Alley': David Frazier and Sean Scanlan's "Dark Funeral: A Black Metal Documentary"; and Joe Losurdo's satire of the Wilco documentary, "I am Trying to Take Your Cash." 5:15.

The Last Fuck

(2003, USA) Directed by Shawn Durr. The last in Durr's lo-fi video series, which has including "Fucked in the Face" and "Meatfucker." 75m. Video. 10:30.

Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music

(2003, England) Directed by Vivek Bald. Seven years in the rise of Asians in British music, including notes of Talvin Singh, Cornershop, Asian Dub Foundation, and others. 80m. 8:45.

Occult of Personality

Films from New York's Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, "a realm to disorder and regain the senses." 10:15.

*Rockets Redglare

See Tip of the Week. 88m. 8:45.

*Tiny Plastic Rainbow

(2003, USA) Directed by Jennifer Reeder. See Tip of the Week. 80m. Video. 6:45.

Tricky Existence

New work by Ben Coonley, Animal Charm, Anne McGuire, Ken Lambert, Brett Simon, Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby; and Jim Finn. 5.

Sat 30

*Cheesy Values

Two docs: Steve Seid and Peter Conheim's overwhelming forty-seven minute compilation of product-placement shots in movies, "Value-Added Cinema" and Brigid Maher's "The King, the Lawyers and the Cheese," a documentary about Kraft Food's lawsuit against Wicker Park satirical artist King Velveeda. Worthy. 8:45.

Fever Dreams

Experimental work. From Austria and elsewhere. 1:30.

The Fountain

(2003, USA) Directed by James Fotopoulous. The latest obsessive experimental video from the local filmmaker. 5.

*FUBAR

(2002, Canada) Directed by Michael Dowse. See Tip of the Week. 7.

Muhammad and Jane

(2003, USA) Directed by Osama Alshaibi. A drama about immigration problems. The latest obsessive experimental video from the local filmmaker. 5.

Noble Sacrifice

(2002, Lebanon) Directed by Vatche Boulghourjian. A view of the annual Muslim rite of Ashura. Shown with Haruko Tanaka's "Around Special Registration." 3:30.

The Platinum Tapes

Lauren Cornell curates a secretion of ambitious music videos. 8:30.

Prohibited Beatz

Music, dance and politics: Julie Covello's "Prohibited Beatz" examines New York's laws that prohibits dancing in most nightclubs and bars; Doug Lussenhop's "Suburban Street Rockers" Dylan Griffin's" Soul Circus," work by Paul Lloyd Sargent; Jonnie Ross, and Ray Pride's "Six Corners," a documentary on a street protest that I have absolutely nothing to say about. 5.

*Quality of Life

Eric Dyer's "Kinetic Sandwich"; Matthew Silver's "Overmodulated Marriage"; Leon Grodski's September 11 reflection, 'Great Balls of Fire"; Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland's "Broken Condom," a documentary on Gurland suddenly finding himself a father; Nick Zedd's "I was a Quality of Life Violation," and Gym Jones' "Why Would Anyone Do Anything," which includes an appearance by Newcity film editor Ray Pride as an uncommonly curious OB-GYN. Noon.

Scrabylon

(2003, USA) Directed by Scott Peterson. The passion of tournament Scrabble players. 5:15.

Smalltown Boys and Girls

Shorts about the strangeness of small-town life, including editor Sean U'Ren's delirious, apocryphal "Light of Other Days," which has moved me tremendously in half-a-dozen viewings. A personal narration of a sorrowed life is read atop home-movie footage from the 1950s, and it is false and utterly authentic, dreaming a different dream atop the images another eye has collated. The touching, seemingly autobiographical story attached to the images is made up. When history fails you, what to do? Tell stories. 10:15.

*Trailer

(2003, USA) Directed by Giuseppe Andrews. Until you see an Andrews video, you don't know filth. Filth, I say. This stuff is nuts. 90m. 10:30.

*Truck

(2003, USA) Directed by Adrianne Jorge, Tamy Ojala. Two women cross the country meeting lifelong truckers, strange men and peculiar women alike. Yow. Shown with Julian Goldberger's "The Eulipion Chronicles Part I: Little America," an experimental look at a truck stop. Program 93m. 5.

Sun 31

*A Certain Kind of Death

(2003, USA) Directed by Blue Hadaegh, Grover Babcock. See Tip of the Week. 7.

Ex-Votos

(2003, USA) Directed by Todd Verow. 80m. 7.

Families

(2003, USA) Directed by James Fotopoulos. Black-and-white, loneliness, family dysfunction, and this one really cool shot of some sheep huddling anxiously in a circle in a farmyard that you have to love. 5.

For Those About To Rock

See Aug 29. 8:30.

It's a Maddin, Maddin World: Films by Contemporary Winnipeg Filmmakers

Walter Forsberg and Matthew Rankin curate a selection. In addition to those mentioned in Tip of the Week, there's work by Noam Gonick and John Paizs. 6:45.

Pastry Selection

Experimental shorts. 1:30.

Retooling Dissent

Shorts about politics, including work by Bryan Boyce, Mary Patten, Streetrec and Jim Finn. 3:15.

The Silence of Green

Experimental shorts, including a video work by Peter Rose, shot during a seven-week cross-country road trip after September 11, and Julian Goldberger's "The Eulipion Chronicles Volume 2: Drifters of the Grand Trunk" which takes us to Southeast Asia; and Andreas Horvath's "The Silence of Green," a contemplation of the Yorkshire countryside after the advent of hoof-and-mouth disease. 1:30.

Threads of Belonging

(2003, USA) Directed by Jennifer Montgomery. The daily life of a fictional therapeutic community where doctors live with schizophrenic patients. From the director of "Art for Teachers of Children." 94m. Video. World premiere. 8:45.

Mon 1

*A Certain Kind Of Death

See Aug 31.7.

*FUBAR

(2002, Canada) Directed by Jeff Dowse. See Tip of the Week. 10:30.

*Hitler's Hat

(2003, USA) Directed by Jeff Krulik. The kind of underground docs like "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" and "I Created Lancelot Link" follows the life of a soldier who brought Hitler's hat home as a souvenir. Busy, strange and altogether cool. Shown with Krulik's "Jeff Krulik Picks the Weasel" and a new documentary by Jim Trainor. 8:30.

*Hot and Bothered

Sarah Jacobson takes a look at her "High School Reunion"; also work by T. Arthur Cottam, and Becky Goldberg's "Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography." 6:45.

Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music

See Aug 30. 8:45.

Noble Sacrifice

See Aug 30. 10:15.

Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary

(2003, USA) Directed by Tracy Flannagan. The life and times of the dyke punk rock band on the road. 80m. 5:15.

*Truck

See Aug 30. 1:45.

Tue 2

Cheesy Values

See Aug 30. 8:45.

Muhammad and Jane

See Aug 31. 8:45.

*Retooling Dissent

See Aug 31. 5.

*Rockets Redglare

See Aug 30. 6:45.

Scrabylon

See Aug 31. 8:30.

Threads of Belonging

See Aug 31. 5:15.

Tricky Existence

See Aug 29. 5:15.

*(Un)natural Order

Experimental work from Ben Russell, Sandra Gibson, Louise Bourque, Robbie Land, Eric Patrick, and a new short by Winnipegger deco dawson, the lovely "Defile in Veil," which received a CUFF grant. 10:15

(2003-08-27)

Also by Ray Pride

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The real world of ordinary life as seen through the eyes of a cranky Cleveland file clerk who adores jazz and distrusts the modern world
(2003-08-20)

Alienation
The technology is there, but are the audiences?
(2003-08-20)

Running time
Indie, underground, commercial... 1915-2003
(2003-08-20)

Short Runs
This week's limited releases
(2003-08-20)

Tip of the Week
(2003-08-13)

Act your rage
(2003-08-13)

Educational Eden
(2003-08-13)

Short Runs
(2003-08-13)

Tip of the Week
(2003-08-05)

Short Runs
(2003-08-05)

L.A. confidence
(2003-08-05)

Tip of the Week
(2003-07-30)

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