GUEST LECTURE BY GERRY FIALKA

MOTIVES & CONSEQUENCES OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM

an interactive workshop on how deviation from the norm results in progress. Reviewing the effects of avant-garde experiments in filmmaking on the creators and the audience, participants will uncover the hidden environments of moving image art. Marshall McLuhan's theme of art (in this case, experimental film) as anti-environment is the context for exploring the impact of pioneers like Marcel Duchamp, Luis Bunuel, Maya Deren, Bruce Conner, and more. 

"Cinema is much too rich a medium to be left to storytellers" -Peter Greenaway
"I am not a storyteller, I work with emotions"- Robert Altman

"The University of Oregon presents a silent film from 1919, titled Ed’s Co-ed. Following the college adventures of a freshman named Ed, the film gives us a glimpse of life at the U of O in the early 20th century. From Model T’s to cloche hats, this film is filled with relics of our past, but it also reminds us that university life has remained the same in many ways; fraternities and sororities, dating, professors lecturing about grades, registering for classes, and other common student activities..."

Additional Performance by Cherry Blossom’s Visual Music (cblossom.org)
“Art Music Meets Dance, juggling and mayhem- vaudeville style"

 CONTACT: jrosman@uoregon.edu

The Fisher-Price PXL2000 (also known as the PixelVision by Fisher-Price, and the KiddieCorder by some of its fans) was a toy black-and-white camcorder produced in 1987 that used an ordinary compact audio cassette as its recording medium.

The PXL2000 consisted of a simple aspherical lens, an infrared filter, a CCD image sensor, a custom ASIC (the Sanyo LA 7306M), and an audio cassette mechanism. This was mounted in a plastic housing with a bay for consumable batteries and a simple RF video modulator. A plastic viewfinder and some control buttons completed the makeup of the device itself.

CONTACT: pfsuzy@aol.com

GUEST LECTURE BY ALEX COX

Alex Cox is a British film director and sometime actor, notable for his idiosyncratic style and approach to scripts. Cox has previously cited Luis Buñuel and Akira Kurosawa as influences.^[1] His film Repo Man is often credited as one of the first modern independent movies. It was this film that brought him critical attention.

Alex Cox was born in Bebington, Wirral, Nr. Liverpool, Merseyside. Cox studied at Wirral Grammar School and later at Worcester College, Oxford, then embarking upon a course in film studies at Bristol University and UCLA in California.

As well as directing films, Cox has helped pen screenplays for the film versions of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. He has also written on the subject of film for publications such as Sight and Sound, The Guardian, The Independent, and Film Comment. From 1988 to 1994, he presented the television series Moviedrome on BBC Two, providing introductions to a series of alternative or obscure films that would otherwise be unknown to the general public.

CONTACT: stevetenhonen@gmail.com

GUEST LECTURE & SCREENING BY WILL VINTON

 "The creation, growth and acceptance of Claymation and 3D Animation, the importance of story and character development at all levels of production, as well as personal career highlights and opportunities for careers in animation and related fields."

Will Vinton is an American director and producer of animated films. He was born in McMinnville, Oregon, near Portland. He has won an Oscar for his work, and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for the work of his studio.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Vinton

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0899139/

GUEST LECTURE ON FILMMAKING & SPECIAL EFFECTS

Featuring Lloyd Kaufman & The Toxic Avenger

For thirty years, Lloyd Kaufman has been the President of Troma Entertainment, the oldest continuously operating independent motion picture production company and distributor. Since 1971, Lloyd has directed 14 feature films, including fan favorites SGT. KABUKIMAN, TROMEO AND JULIET and TERROR FIRMER, as well as all four films in the worldwide phenomenon THE TOXIC AVENGER series.

"Make Your Own Damn Movie!” is an informative, interactive and highly entertaining crash course on filmmaking, aimed to anyone who’s ever wanted to make movies but doesn’t have the cash. Using real-life examples from Kaufman’s own thirty years experience in the business, ‘Make Your Own Damn Movie’ illustrates the whole independent filmmaking process from conception to completion.

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Cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers!

When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason Yachanin) returns to the spot of his first (and only) romantic encounter with his high school sweetheart– the not-so-romantic Ancient Tromahawk Tribe Indian Burial Ground– he is shocked to discover two horrible realities:

Not only has the graveyard been bulldozed to make room for the newest fast-food “American Chicken Bunker” chain restaurant, but after only one semester at college, his girlfriend Wendy (Kate Graham) has been transformed into a left-wing, lipstick-lesbian liberal, and spends her free time protesting the corporate takeover of America.

Reeling from heartbreak and a brutal beating from Micki (Allyson Sereboff), Wendy’s new activist girlfriend, Arbie channels his spite into applying for a job at the very restaurant they are protesting against.

But something else is feeling wronged by all of the construction and commotion… Something not human…

Meanwhile, newly employed Arbie’s new coworkers are a colorful group: the sassy manager Denny (Joshua Olatunde); the burqa-clad Muslim, Humus (Rose Ghavami); the animal-loving yokel Carl, Jr. (Caleb Emerson); the effete Mexican spitfire Paco Bell (Khalid Rivera); and a mysterious 60-year-old man who has been working in fast-food all his life (Lloyd Kaufman).

Together, they slowly uncover the supernatural secret of the American Chicken Bunker, while the owner General Lee Roy (Robin L. Watkins) tries to keep a lid on everything, lest the scandal taint his growing empire. But once workers and customers start dying in bizarre and grotesque ways, it becomes clear that this isn’t just a mild case of salmonella … but something much more FOWL.

Will Arbie and his friends stop the supernatural before they infect all the artificial food stuffs, the customers or even the world? Will Arbie be able to win Wendy back now that he’s making minimum-wage? What’s Carl Jr. doing with that frozen chicken? And what’s with all the singing and dancing?

http://www.poultrygeistmovie.com

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW with Forbidden Fruit

Halloween Night - October 31 at 9 pm

Featuring a live casts who perform scenes during the movie, and you - the audience are welcome to respond to the on-screen action. The longest-running midnight movie of all time stars Tim Curry as the kinky yet endearing “transsexual from Transylvania” Dr. Frank N. Furter, Susan Sarandon and Barry Bostwick as his hapless guests Brad and Janet, Meat Loaf as motorcycle-riding rough trade and author Richard O’Brien as the hunchbacked butler Riff Raff. It’s harmless musical fun—a delightful spoof of Hollywood horror movies and Old Dark House melodramas. The Rocky Horror Picture was the first—and is still the best—interactive movie experience!