FW: Bridge Newsletter 8/22/2

— Michael Workman <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 22:32:29 -0500
> To: [email protected]
> From: Michael Workman <[email protected]>
> Subject: Bridge Newsletter 8/22/2
>
> Ladies and Gentlemen:
>
> Please join us at the Bridge event space at 119
> North Peoria this Saturday,
> August 24 at 4:30PM for a discussion and film
> screening with director Russ
> Forster. Underground publisher/filmmaker/musician
> Forster will explore the
> elation and frustration that strange and forgotten
> technologies have
> brought him. As editor for 10 years of 8-Track Mind
> Magazine and
> director/editor/songwriter behind the 16mm feature
> film So Wrong They're
> Right, Forster has plenty of stories to tell about
> the pains and pleasures
> of pre-digital technologies. Films to be screened
> include: Truth, Beauty,
> Strangeness and Charm, A $323 Film, Candy Is Dandy
> and a short excerpt from
> So Wrong They're Right. A $5 donation is suggested,
> and please feel free to
> BYOB (and yes, we now have chairs).
>
> Forster has been dabbling in underground films of
> all kinds since 1991,
> particularly experimental shorts, documentary, and
> most recently, rock
> video. His 16mm feature-length documentary So Wrong
> They're Right (1995)
> won awards at the Chicago Underground Film Festival
> and the Central Florida
> Film and Video Festival, and toured 30 cities around
> the U.S. His
> feature-length video documentary Tributary has
> played to enthusiastic
> audiences in Minneapolis, MN, Portland, OR and
> Vancouver, BC. Currently he
> is working on two sexually charged projects: The
> World Is At Your Feet
> which will expose foot fetishism in Chicago, IL and
> Portland, OR; and
> Salacious Suggestion, which will explore the idea of
> creating a new
> pornography that is appealing to both men and women
> and that is engaging to
> the mind as well as the gonads.
>
> FILM/VIDEOGRAPHY
>
> Truth, Beauty, Strangeness and Charm (1991), 9
> minutes, 16mm
> A $323 Film (1993), 4 minutes, 16mm (silent)
> So Wrong They're Right (1995), 92 minutes, 16mm
> Candy is Dandy (1995, w/ Kari Busch), 4.5 minutes,
> 16mm
> Snapshot Olympia (1999, w/ the Olympia Film Ranch),
> 14 minutes, 16mm
> La Vie En Rose (1999, w/ Kari Busch, Jennifer
> Baise), 4.5 minutes, Hi-8/Super-8
> Tributary Trailer (1999), 2 minutes, Hi-8
> I Don't Mind (2000), 3 minutes, Super-8
> 8-Track Mind Issue #100 (2000), 84 minutes,
> Hi-8/Super-8
> Tributary (2000), 70 minutes, Hi-8
> SAID (2001, w/Laura Paris), 8 minutes, DV
>
> Early next week, look for an announcement about
> Bibliomix. An experimental
> reading-DJ performance with guest appearances by
> Joyelle McSweeney, John
> Connors, Lucy Anderton and hosted by Greg Gillam,
> this first installment of
> Bibliomix on Wednesday at 8PM will inaugurate a
> bi-monthly series of
> Bibliomix performances.
>
> And, as always, we invite you to subscribe. The $17
> for 1/yr rate increases
> with the release of Bridge 5 to $30/yr so take
> advantage of this premium
> rate while there's still time and help support the
> finest source for visual
> art, music, literature, culture and critique!
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
>
> Michael Workman
> Editor-in-chief, Bridge
> 119 North Peoria, #3D
> Chicago, IL 60607
> Ph: 312-421-2227
> Fax: 312-421-2228
> www.bridgemagazine.org
>
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