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By Noah Lopez
Arizona Daily Wildcat
August 22, 1996
7 underground films. 13 cities. 13 days. One '65 Chevy van.
Monday, August 26, Tucson's Screening Room will feature a collection of 16 mm underground, off-beat short films from San Francisco.
The collection, currently touring 13 Southwest cities, was assembled by filmmakers Bill Daniel and Greta Snider in an effort to share the creative visions of San Francisco with other live audiences.
"We love to project films," Daniel says. "We want to help make connections between film artists and viewers. On this tour we're tapping into the growing network of relatively new underground and 'straight' venues that show artist-made film."
The films cover such broad ground as backwoods drag-racing, freight-hopping punks, and, perhaps most strangely, a story lifted from a Jack Chick religious tract. Daniel claims that the films in the program are held together by a common attitude; an artful low-life sensibility. He labels them "reality based personal cinema, not in the manner of diary film, but in that they play with documentary conventions in idiosyncratic ways, or are constructed from fragments of the real world.
"We've strung together a pretty diverse mix of films, but they all went together in pretty neat ways. It's not an obvious program like 'Lesbian Night' or 'Redneck Night,' but it's kind of both among other things. Really, it's experimental programming, we want to find out what happens when these films show together."
The line-up is as follows:
- "Texaslovakis" (directed by Steve Bade). Found footage reveals the memoirs of a place that lost it's memory.
- "Hokey Stoke" (Bill Daniel). A day at the drag races in East Texas with historical footnotes and music by the Hickoids.
- "The History of Texas City" (B.Daniel) Experimental infomercial.
- "World of Women" (Monica Nolan). Preview for a movie that never existed spins a spoof of 50's trailers and lesbian pulp fiction.
- "Angels" (Aimee Pavy) Film adaptation of a Jack Chick publication dramatizes the rise and fall of a Christian rock band.
- "Portland" (Greta Snider). Freight hopping punks recount a road trip to Portland that goes wrong.
- "Advice to Adventurous Girls" (Kim Wood). The story of discovering the story of the first woman motorcycle daredevil to operate the Wall of Death.
"Off-Beat Shorts From San Francisco" will play Monday at 8:00 p.m. Single admission is $5.00. For further information, call 622-2262.
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