News

Updated September 2011

  • The third issue of INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, "New Ages," is in production and will be printed later this fall. Contributors include Jeremy Bailey, Christina Battle, Thomas Beard, Roger Beebe, Jacob Ciocci & Jesse McLean, Shana Moulton, Tess Takahashi, and many more. A Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for said printing will be launching soon -- watch for details!
  • Copies of INCITE #2, "Counter-Archive," with over 120 pages of content, and a DVD containing more than an hour of short films and videos, are still available. Read what Bad Lit had to say about it here.

  • The Road Ended at the Beach and Other Legends: Parsing the "Escarpment School," a four-part film series that I curated for the Winnipeg Cinematheque, debuted in November 2010. The series will be touring this fall (2011) to Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.

  • Valery's Ankle will be screening at Craig Baldwin's wonderful Other Cinema in San Francisco on Nov. 19/2011, as part of OC's fall "Pyscho-Geography" program. Here's a blurb about it: "A compass of compelling pieces pivoting on place and the sensibility it in-forms, tonight taking a South/North tack through the the three neighboring nations of North America. The show's starting section looks at Mexico through Angela Reginato's (in person) W-I-P Luna Conejo, a half-hr. coming-of-age in Mexico City. AND Greg Berger flies up from Cuernavaca to debut his Narcomania, a wickedly comic critique of the drug cartels through the Pop-Cult lens of Beatlemania! After intermission, we play with the problematics of Canadian identity in Brett Kashmere's interrogation of their national pastime of hockey, Valery's Ankle. Completing the continental circuit is Brigid McCaffrey's 16mm meditation on SoCal topography, Castaic Lake."

  • A screening at Atlanta's upstart Contraband Cinema is also in the works for this fall.

  • A piece that I wrote about Carolee Schneemann's neglected Super-8 epic, Kitch's Last Meal, will be appearing in a soon-to-be-released special issue of Millennium Film Journal devoted to Schneemann's film work and edited by the great Kenneth White.

  • Roger Beebe may be lighting up his film projectors with Pittsburgh's Dock Ellis Perforated Head Society in October, as part of his fall tour. The full tour dates are listed at the end of his press release here.

  • Finally, I'm still in post-production on The Fifth Quarter, an audiovisual essay that explores the social and cultural dimensions of basketball. Hope to have that done sometime.