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The set list (and the media) for Bill Daniel's screening (courtesy Bill Daniel) |
SFVHS:
California Artists’ Video 1988-1999
Guest curator/filmmaker Bill Daniel in person
Friday, June 18, 2016
7:30 pm at Eyedrum
$8
Film Love presents legendary filmmaker Bill Daniel, whose 2005 train-hopping
graffiti doc Who Is Bozo Texino? and years of activist video work have
proven influential on a generation of DIY artists. Fresh from teaching at the
revitalized Black Mountain School, Daniel has undertaken a southern tour,
guest-curating a treasure trove of rare and nearly forgotten VHS video works
from 80s and 90s San Francisco. From the curator:
"Roving artist and
makeshift film scholar, Bill Daniel, has dug deep into his milk crate media
archive and retrieved a program of videos from the late analog era in San
Francisco. During this time Daniel was a member of the Mission District
collective Artists’ Television Access, where these works screened. The 80 minute
program spans a range of forms from agit prop, pranks, activist documentation,
video art, anti-capitalist intervention, and plain old fun.
The tapes are
no-budget, raw and playful— most of them produced on simple linear tape-to-tape
analog editing systems. Looking back at this era it’s hard not to feel nostalgic
for a kind of golden moment as anti-Gulf War protestors take over the Bay
Bridge, beer-guzzling soapbox-racing bike messengers take over Bernal Heights
for word-of-mouth stagings of The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society, and
artists modify billboards, participate in anti-logging protests, and retrieve
lost pieces of San Francisco’s counter cultural history.
All work
presented on the original VHS tapes!"
Provisional selections, subject to
change:
Shut Down Downtown Fogtown, Whispered Media, 8 min., 1990
Clarion
Alley Mural Project, Jim Kavanaugh, 10 min, 1994
(Jack Wright, performance
documentation, ATA Gallery), Bill Daniel, (excerpt), 1988
Slow Gin Soul
Stallion, Animal Charm, 3 min, 1996
Thought Crimes in the Satiation Pool,
Barry Schwartz, 7 min, 1989
Redwood Report, Greta Snider and Bill Daniel, 22
min, 1990
Circue, Lisa Brennan, 4 min, 1992
Bringing it to You, RT Mark
(excerpt.), 1998
Hide, Eric Saks and Patrick Tierney, 1 min, 1990
Endless
Endless Summer, Bill Daniel, (excerpt), 1988
On Any Third Sunday, San
Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society, 20 min, 1995
Pie Fight 69, Christian Bruno
and Sam Green, 7 min. 1999
Eyedrum
88 Forsyth St, Atlanta, GA, 30303
http://eyedrum.org/
SFVHS is a Film Love event. The Film Love
series provides access to great but rarely seen films, especially important
works unavailable on consumer video. Programs are curated and introduced by Andy
Ditzler, and feature lively discussion. Through public screenings and events,
Film Love preserves the communal viewing experience, provides space for the
discussion of film as art, and explores alternative forms of moving image
projection and viewing. Film Love was voted Best Film Series in Atlanta by the
critics of Creative Loafing in 2006, and was featured in Atlanta Magazine's Best
of Atlanta 2009.