Mike Kuchar film screening at Alley Cat BooksCat's Eye presents Digital Daydreams: New Motion Pictures by Mike Kuchar Thursday August 22, 8pm Alley Cat Books and Gallery https://www.facebook.com/events/1378096702418589/ Alley Cat Books and Gallery inaugurates Cat's Eye, a monthly movie series, with "Digital Daydreams: New Motion Pictures by Mike Kuchar," featuring Mike Kuchar in person. Seating is limited. The program includes the tragicomic Happy Birthday!, Mike's most recent "class picture" with his students at the San Francisco Art Institute, along with premieres of at least four videos that continue his exploration of poetry and moving imagery—though in some of these newer works, solitude gives way to the charged dynamic between a pair of characters. Languorous yet convulsive, prismatic, romantic, intricately layered, awash with lush color, and keenly attuned to male beauty, these movies could only come from the camera and mind's eye of Mike Kuchar. —The Dragon's Son (2013, 12 minutes). ... Somewhere inside him something slumbers; the myths, the beliefs that flow, fuse, and burn through him. —Happy Birthday! (2013, 20 minutes). "Misery" doesn't love "company," but "company" does love a "party," so come join in on a catastrophic celebration—and do "hang on" tight, because it's a steep ride into the depths of a soul in meltdown mode! —NightFall (2013, 12 minutes). —Primordial Neverland (2013, 12 minutes). A bathtub full of floating lilies and a prophetic mirror are the gateway for a poet's abstract thoughts. —SoulMates (2013, 12 minutes). ...They had their source in tangled vegetable matter, countless rapes and invasions, and enjoy good wine with the girls. Mike Kuchar, cinematographer, painter, writer, and brother of George Kuchar, was born in New York City. He began making 8mm movies in the 1950s, switching over to 16mm film production in 1960, and continues now, producing short motion pictures in the video and digital formats. In 2009, Mike and George Kuchar were co-recipients of the Vanguard Director Award at the CineVegas Film Festival and the Frameline Award at the San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival. They're also the subjects of Jennifer M. Kroot's 2009 feature documentary, It Came From Kuchar. Mike's movies will be screened at the Tate Modern later this year, and a book of his drawings and paintings, Primal Male, will be published in 2014. He teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute, and is represented by [ 2nd floor projects ] in San Francisco and Video Data Bank in Chicago. Cat's Eye, a monthly movie series, is programmed by Johnny Ray Huston, 415 812 1701.
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Thursday, August 22, 2013
Reminder: Mike Kuchar film screening at Alley Cat Books @ Thu Aug 22, 2013 8pm - 9:30pm (Queer Things)
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