Heaven Gallery

Heaven Gallery Screening Series Proudly Presents
The Experimental Comedy Video Show
Or the

“Superfuntasticexperimentalcomedyshortexplosion”

In the spirit of our experimental video series we thought that we would designate a night of experimental comedy videos. The artists in this show use experimental video technique and writing to produce pieces with a comedic edge. Post screening there will be a live performance by “Kill Comedy” a stand up comedy duo that aspires to perform live comedy but also to “kill” the standard stand up approach.
Video Screening & performance by Kill Comedy Saturday August 16th 2008 9pm $7 suggested donation.

Fresh from a four-day tour of St. Louis, MO., Kill Comedy is an anonymous standup duo in white sweat suits with “no jokes”. They present “a scientific study of the straight man/funny man dilemma”. “What is comedy?” they ask. Kill Comedy perform after the video screening.

Video Show Will Include Work By:
Ryan Trecartin
Paper Rad
Animal Charm
Eric Fensler
TV Sheriff
Jim Finn
Mike Finch
Leslie & The Lys
Bobby Ciraldo
Andrew Swant
Andrew Rosas
Dean Rank
Elisa Harkins
The Pretty Things
Rodney Ascher
ZZalgern0n
Ryan Kortman
Laura Klein
Ben Driggs
Catie Olsen
Keith Kolecki
Marc Riordan
Rich Szczepanski
Mike Miles
AD&D and Slow Kid
Marc Riordan
Ryan Brennan
Lyn Elliot
Paul Brittain

Video show curated by Clara Alcott & Keith Kolecki

Links & Information about artists
Ryan Trecartin
http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/ryan-trecartin
http://www.youtube.com/user/WianTreetin

www.paperrad.org
www.animalcharm.com

TV Sheriff
www.davyforce.com

www.jimfinn.org
www.prettythingsss.com

Sample of a video that is part of the show:
Kitty Concerto by Ryan Brennan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaREyRxYLFg

The Video Program is about 90 minutes with an intermission. Kill Comedy will perform for a half an hour. The videos will screen indoors in Heaven’s main gallery and on the back screening roof. Kill Comedy will also perform on the porch.

For more information contact (773) 983-6905 | Email: clara@heavengallery.com| Heaven Gallery 1550 N. Milwaukee 2nd Fl. Chicago, IL 60622

Sean Twin Oaks Puppet Screening

Documentary by Maya Jensen $5 donation
Solidarity in Saya: An Afro-Bolivian Cultural Music Movement

Abstract:
This documentary examines the Afro-Bolivian urban youth movement of Saya music in La Paz, Bolivia that uses this traditional music to pursue their social and political needs. As migrants from villages in the rural, semi-tropical Yungas, this community of youths faces alienation in dealing with the foreign urban environment in which they also cope with racial discrimination on a daily basis. These urban youth build a supportive community around the Saya music group, which serves as a refuge from marginalization in mainstream Bolivian society. The social cohesion and unity cultivated within the Saya group has become a platform for political activism to confront the invisibility of the Afro-Bolivian minority. Rather than standing idle while the colonial hegemonic system of racial hierarchy defines them, the Afro-Bolivian Saya group members empower themselves by defining their own history and identity through these music performances. The Afro-Bolivian youths in La Paz use the musical expression of their history and identity to pursue their current goals of increased respect within society and official recognition by the state.

Columbia College MFA Music Composition for
the Screen students accompanying silent films from the
late 19th/20th century $5 donation

THE ACTUALITY SHOW
Fundamentals of Cinema in Tracking Shots, Nature and
Kissing (1893 - 1905).

With live musical accompaniment by students of
Columbia College's MFA Music Composition for the
Screen program.

'Actuality film': the crude, unorganized footage of a
real place, event, thing, etc., generally referring to
the first decade of cinema's creation, when filmmakers
weren't filmmakers but "operators" who captured nature
and the modern world using hand-cranked cameras.
Hovering between the mundane (workers leaving a
factory) and the extraordinary (President McKinley
makes a personal appearance), these fragments often
reveal inadvertent truths about the manipulations
inherent to both documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Actualities are thought of as static, grainy, boring,
primitive (Gorky's "Kingdom of Shadows"); taking a
closer look, they contain the ambition of a modern
cinema that finds virtue in the simple observation of
the world's splendor (contemporary masters such as Hou
Hsiao-hsien and Abbas Kiarostami come to mind).

THE ACTUALITY SHOW takes a look at three phenomenon of
actualities from 1893- 1905: the invention of the
tracking shot by mounting cameras to trains and other
movable machinery; the unpredictable, astonishing
presence of nature and wildlife that found its way
into the early cinema frame as a testament to the
power of documentary; and the human kiss as an
electrifying presentiment of the potential of a new
art form to inspire love and change.

Original music composed and performed by:
Elon Arbiture
Jordan Balagot
Duncan Blickenstaff
Joseph Cooper
Mae Crosby
Andrew Edwards
Victor Hernandez-Sumpfhauser
Robert Ramos
Marjorie Rusche
Nathaniel Smith
Michelle Tyler

Program runs approximately 90 minutes with brief
pauses between films. DVD projection.