Sonic Youth on Film

Wednesday, November 8th
@ Holocene
1001 SE Morrison
8 pm
$5

The Cinema of Sonic Youth

(stop-and-pause)is proud to present 2 rare pieces by filmmaker Leah Singer & SY member Lee Ranaldo and a collection of live performance collaborations chronicled by both filmmakers along with one Fluxus homage performance film by Chris Habib.
DJ Yeti (Mike McGonigal) will spin contemporaries and influences of the band (krautrock, free jazz, avant garde compositions & NY school poetry) during the intermission part of the evening.
This screening would not be possible without the generosity of Plexifilm and the artists.

DRIFT
Leah Singer & Lee Ranaldo
58 minutes

DRIFT is a collaboration started in 1991 between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth. DRIFT is an immersive sonic/visual environment consisting of music, sounds and texts by Ranaldo in response to two 16mm analytical film projectors performed in real time by Singer. Much as a DJ scratches a vinyl record, Singer manipulates her films in a live improvisation with Ranaldo's guitar, poetry and soundscapes.

DRIFT has been performed live in museums, galleries, concert halls and performing arts centers worldwide since 1991 and was performed live in Los Angeles at the LA Museum of Contemporary Art as part of a Robert Smithson Retrospective in Oct 2004.

Lee Ranaldo is the guitarist and a founding member of the band Sonic Youth. His books of poetry and prose include JRNLS80s and Road Movies among others. Leah Singer is a visual artist and photographer and her work has been seen in print, performances and in exhibitions around the world.

DRIFT is a production of Gigantic ArtSpace.

"DRIFT flows into our nervous system along concurrent multiple streams... and reveals a complex and layered cinema." -Tom Lesser

"DRIFT manages to combine long, dreamlike sequences with a rough hyperrealism, merging a punk aesthetic with the poetics of a happening. It's an equal meeting of music, image and text: at a dirty New York street corner, in trips through the desert and the heart, freaked out LA parties and pensive bookstores. Filmic observations teamed up with wild wild music." -Roland Spekle

-- DJ Yeti


Sonic Youth Shorts
42 minutes

A selection of short films produced by the band (shot by Ranaldo & Singer), including four "noise" films: live footage of SY along with Pavement, Afrirampo, Wolf Eyes, Merzbow and others, accompanied by live or manipulated soundtracks that chronicle the immediate free form experience from the stage in Ranaldo’s immediate diarist style ; and Chris Habib's film of the band's 1999 performance of George Maciunas' "Piano Piece #13" (for Nam June Paik).

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(stop-and-pause) screening # 2

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Saturday, May 13th
@ Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny
8pm
Free

SCREENING # 2:

The Saloon, by Sarah Halpern. (PDX)
Format: Animation, Video, Sub-Genre: Cowboys, Guns

Cat & Cake by Gideon D. Klindt (PDX)
Format: Animations, Sub-Genre: Cats, Cakes

Skull and Blackberries by Eric Ostrowski (Seattle, WA)
Format: Super 8 Film, Sub-Genre: Skulls, Blackberries

Natural History by James Walsh (NYC)
Format: Video, Sub-Genre: Museum of Natural History, George Eastman, founder of Kodak Film

Paul On My Side by Matt Curreri (San Diego, CA)
Format: Video, Sub-Genre: mean big brothers, mean boyfriends of girls you like, mean bosses, etc.

Color & Modulation by Rob Tyler (NYC)
Format: Paint on 16mm Film, Sub-Genre: Pretty Tripped Out Color Swirls, see; installation, ambient, computer manipulation

This Is the Bike Ride to Work by Stephanie Gray (NYC)
Format: Super 8, Sub-Genre: Bikes, Buffalo NY

Frozen Sea by David Abel & Karl Lind (PDX)
Format : Video, Sub-Genre: Poetics, Books, Large Bodies of Water, Robert Duncan

The Road to Nam by Mike Estabrook (NYC)
Format: Video, Sub-Genre: 40’s swing, Big Band, Vietnam, Corruption, etc.



Music video by Kurt Nishimura (PDX)
Format: Video, Sub-Genre: Hip Hop, Empower, Anti-Corporate Lifestyle, etc.



(stop-and-pause) is a collective video action committed to widening the scope of experimental video/film through multiple virtual/non-virtual avenues.
www.stop-and-pause.blogspot.com

I forgot to mention the listing in the Tribune.

THE PORTLAND TRIBUNE
Weekend of April 6-9


MOVIES

Stop-and-Pause Screening No. 1
Catch up with 10 works by interesting moviemakers (some local) in one fell swoop at the little coffee shop that could.
Among the offerings are Rob Tyler’s documentary about a can opener, “Magic Hostess”; a new one from Vanessa Renwick called “Lure”; “Waiting for the Quinault” by Philip Cooper; “Striped” by Karl Lind and Cat Tyc, the woman behind Stop-and-Pause, which is putting on the event; and “Monsters” by Gretchen Hogue (whose bio states she “lives on the bonny banks of the Willamette River soothed by the natural sounds of the freight trains and bellowing ships that are her neighbors. She makes movies, does Thai massage and rides a maroon bike.” You know her, don’t you?).
Something to do on a Sunday, anyway.
— JG
8 p.m. SUNDAY, April 9, Valentine’s, 232 S.W. Ankeny St., 503-248-1600, www.stop-and-pause.blogspot.com, free

Thanks to everyone that came to the screening last Sunday.

The first screening was packed and went off with minor audio hitches. The one thing I learned about doing a screening at Valentine's is that if I am up on the perch, I can't very well get to the front very easily and thank those that helped me make it happen but I do think it is important to say that it couldn't have happened without the help of Karl Lind who picked up the projector and lent us his screen, Chris for lending the projector and sticking by me on the perch to help out with the wiring, Jason for working on his night off and helping out with the audio, Gretchen for coming up and giving us advice, and Philip Cooper for designing the flyer and standing on a very high ladder to hang the curtains. Also, I want to thank Brian for lending us his beautiful velvet curtains to keep the light out.

The next screening will be at Valentine's on May 13th and for those of you that couldn't make either one, there will be another screening merging the two bills also in May, more details to come.

stop-and-pause screening #1

(stop-and-pause)

Sunday, April 9th
@ Valentine’s
232 SW Ankeny
8pm

SCREENING # 1:

magic hostess : the electric can opener’ by Rob Tyler
music: Matt McCormack

Rob Tyler is a graphic designer and filmmaker based in Portland. Oregon, working in both documentary & experimental mediums. Rob's films and videos are both visually stunning and atmospherically beautiful. Rob's work has screened internationally at such places as Viper|Basel and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.

‘interlude’ by Vandana Jain & Mike Estabrook

Mike Estabrook is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He has been actively involved in New York's counter cultural art world, and was a member of the cultural collective The Pavilion of the American Resistance. Currently, he is working on a collaborative show called Tactics, opening early April at Future Prospects gallery (Manila, The Philippines). His work is on view at the Artists In The Marketplace exhibition at The Bronx Museum (The Bronx, NY), and at The Ides of March at ABC No Rio (New York City, NY).
Vandana Jain is also an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY and her latest exhibitions have been at the Queens Museum of Art, Momenta Gallery, Asian American Arts Center and PS122.
‘interlude’ is a first time video collaboration for both and a break from all the politics.

‘lure’ : Vanessa Renwick

Portland based Vanessa Renwick is an old lady from Chicago that can still push the trigger on the camera and keeps on pushing it where it hasn’t been pushed before. Tonight’s piece is a never-before-screened video that has only been available on Tara Jane O’Neil’s EP ‘Tracer’ until this evening.

‘waiting for the quinault’: Philip Cooper

Philip Cooper is a filmmaker and musician from Portland, OR. ‘Waiting for the Quinalt’ was shot on Super 8 in various tropical locations. He also designed the flyer for the event so he is adored.

‘untitled’ by Shawna Ferreira
music: M83 & Animal Collective

Shawna Ferreira’s kaleidoscopic video makes the Animal Collective’s disjointed tune an amusement park ride. She also has two new large-scale mixed-media works that will be on view in conjunction with her Case Works exhibition at Reed College. Ferreira is a Portland-based artist whose prints and videos have been exhibited at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery and PICA’s TBA festival.

‘monsters’ by Gretchen Hogue

Gretchen Hogue lives on the bonny banks of the
Willamette River soothed by the natural sounds of the
freight trains and bellowing ships that are her
neighbors. She makes movies, does Thai massage, and
rides a maroon bike.

“Monsters’ is a pixel-saturated collage of The Shining and Rosemary’s Baby.

‘hearts from new york’ : Stephanie Gray

Stephanie Gray is a prose poet and experimental filmmaker living in NYC.
Her Super 8 piece "Hearts from New York" started when she was asked to make a Valentines piece. (oh, the irony……) It turned out looking for hearts was easier than she thought. Most of the hearts found were not in Valentines displays, but were year round hearts. It proves that New York, the coldest of cities, does have a heart, no?

’ you can’t see me when I hide’ by Harris Smith

Harris Smith is a film/videomaker in New York, NY via Washington D.C.
Besides making films, he is in the Graduate Program for Media Studies at the New School for Social Research and has a daily radio show on East Village Radio which can be streamed from www.eastvillageradio.com
at 12-2 EST.

‘You Can’t See” is about a woman who becomes one of the many unemployed and decides to never leave her house again. If you have not been her, you know someone who is her.

‘fist the chip’ by Kristina Davies
music: Spice Tomb

Kristina Davies is an amazing artist/filmmaker, musician living in Portland, OR via Louisville, KY She is also the lead singer of Spice Tomb and this is their first music video and it will make you wish it was 1993 again.

‘striped‘ by Karl Lind & Cat Tyc

Karl Lind is a video/filmmaker-editor extraordinaire from Portland, OR via Las Vegas, NV. He knows more about the whereabouts of Corey Feldman than anyone should. Cat Tyc is a writer/videomaker from Portland, OR via NYC. This (stop-and-pause) event is all her fault. ‘striped’ is a first time collaboration for both and consists of a hacked VCR, a magnet, some color bars and a pair of headphones made to work like a microphone.
In some ways, it is an ode to a pug named Pearl.



(stop-and-pause) is a collective video action committed to widening the scope of experimental video/film through multiple virtual/non-virtual avenues.
www.stop-and-pause.blogspot.com

10.6.05

'A poem's plastic reality is much more like the reality of a film, which is editing.' -- Hal Hartley

'Its a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.' -- Pema Chodron