March 30, 2003
Missoula, Montana kinoKULTURE
SUNDAY APRIL 27th
Missoula, Montana kinoKULTURE
There’s something in the water in Missoula, Montana...Both of our featured directors – Lynch and Hawes-Davis – were born there, both have unique styles, and both have produced superlative pieces of work. One director you'll have heard about; the other you CANNOT miss.
Screening :
David Lynch : Six Men Getting Sick / The Amputee / The Cowboy and the Frenchman/ Lumière et compagnie: Premonitions Following an Evil Deed plus Doug Hawes-Davis : This Is Nowhere
We screen four rarely seen Lynch pieces :
Six Men Getting Sick (1966) 4 mins (1 minute animation loop repeated 4 times)
This film was created as part of a sculpted work, to be projected over and bring it to animated life. Essentially, the title expresses what little plot there is. Six cartoon heads grow ill, and then vomit. Not nearly as nauseating as it sounds and a good introduction to Lynch in his artist days.
The Amputee: 2 Versions (1974) 5 mins/4 mins
A young woman writes a letter to a lover about friendship, trust, and betrayal, as a male nurse cares for her hideously mangled leg stumps. Shot on video as an experiment for the American Film Institute.
The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1989) 26 mins
Slim, Pete, and Dusty spend a lazy afternoon on the dude ranch, when what should come down the hillside but a lost man, dressed in a very European suit and beret. After ransacking his valise, they discover he is French. There is a huge language gap, but mutual goodwill (and an Indian scout named Broken Feather) seems to bind them together. They party all night and into the next day. This was originally conceived as part of a French television show.
Lumière et compagnie: Premonitions Following an Evil Deed (1996) -- 52 secs.
A young woman's murdered body is discovered by police. An older woman rises from a swing with a distressed look on her face. Smoke fills the screen, and we then see three distorted beings surrounding a large water filled cylinder. There is a nude woman inside. Flames explode, and we are in the living room of an older couple. The woman rises to answer the door. The police have arrived, hats in hand. Created to celebrate the 100th year of the Lumière camera and the advent of motion pictures.
PLUS THE UK PREMIERE OF DOUG-HAWES DAVIS VISIONARY DOCUMENTARY
This Is Nowhere
87 minutes, colour USA 2002
www.highplainsfilms.org
Welcome to camping in the 21st century.
Each year tens of thousands of travellers - a fraction of the estimated three million American "full-timers" on the road at any one point - steer their RVs – recreational vehicles, ostensibly uber-motorhomes - into Wal-Mart parking lots to "camp" or "boondock" ( camp without paying ) for a night or two. Just as they seek out national parks and historic sites, RV travellers have marked Wal-Mart stores as travel destinations, with the added security and safety a 24 hour supermarket with CCTV and free car-parking can provide.
Hawes-Davis, in this unintrusive and subtly subversive film suggests that these ' Wally Worlders' represent a new American community, one attuned to the predictability and homogeneity that the more than 2,500 Wal-Marts nationwide provide; hinting that this mutually evolved symbiotic relationship between multinational and human has created a new evolution of the species - from consumer to brand parasite.
Fascinating, humane, terrifying, futuristic and very, very, very wry, you’ll never go supermarket in quite the same way again.
On the other hand, now you know where to hock down on the road in the US...
Doors 7.30pm, £6 / £5 members / concessions
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