FILM ARTS FORUM
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Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
Monday, December 7, 7:30 pm (7:00 pm door)
KINOTEK
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
December 12–13, 8:00 pm
SF360 FILM+CLUB
Steven Severin: Music for Silents
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Tuesday, January 12, doors 7:00 pm, show 8:00 pm
Releases
San Francisco Film Society Presents Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice
KinoTek Program Brings New Platforms to New Audiences December 12–13 and Highlights the Ways that Technology and Live Performance Can Interact with Cinema
10/22/2009
The San Francisco Film Society presents the KinoTek program Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice, a multimedia dance, theater and projected video performance, Saturday–Sunday, December 12–13 at 8:00 pm at SOMArts Cultural Center, 934 Brannan Street.
Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is a critical, virtual journey through the psyche of Roy Sullivan—the real-life American who purportedly holds the world record for being struck by lightning: seven times. Sullivan encounters and falls hopelessly in love with the enchanting Hot Wire Honey, a woman made of glow-in-the-dark electrical cords, which symbolize Sullivan’s high-voltage violence and his undeniably vital energy. Sullivan is also partially seduced by the flamboyance and graceful sophistication of the possibly inaccessible, cosmopolitan Ballerina Internationale, who seems to promise global inclusion. Sullivan’s adversary, the prickly and competitive Testosterony Pony, flaunts a masculinity that Sullivan can never achieve and also steals his love.
Performance artist, dancer, filmmaker and choreographer Catherine Galasso’s motivation has been to find a unique mode of expression that extends beyond traditional boundaries between media. She combines the ephemeral qualities of performance with the illusive permanence of film and video in order to create cutting-edge and provocative narratives. Although her pieces differ greatly in theme and execution, they are for the most part based on modern myth and idiosyncratic stories that inspire and move her. In terms of content, the eclectic pieces that constitute Galasso’s body of work are united by an ongoing fascination with stories of human struggle.
“Catherine Galasso’s work exemplifies the type of multidisciplinary art that we look to present in our KinoTek programs,” said Sean Uyehara, SFFS programmer. “She creates a balance between narrative and abstract elements, weaves together aesthetics and politics, and juxtaposes technology and tradition to portray stories of human struggle.”
KinoTek programs present cinematic works that illuminate the ways in which burgeoning technologies alter the production, distribution and exhibition of media. The program highlights new technologies, cross-platform works and interactive elements and explores how these platforms help create new aesthetic and social experiences. To date, the KinoTek programs have included live cinema, VJing, mobile media, games, user-generated content, interactive animation, locative media and more.
Tickets $15 year-round SFFS members, $18.00 general, $16.50 seniors, students and persons with disabilities; Tickets available online at www.sffs.org, by calling 925.866.9559 or by faxing 925.866.9597. Box office opens October 23 for SFFS members and October 29 for the general public.
Full schedule and information: sffs.org/screenings-and-events
For screeners and interviews contact Hilary Hart at 415-561-5022 or hilary@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit: http://download.sffs.org/press/04_Special_Screenings/
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is presented with support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism, Inspiring Bay Area Youth, Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 22–May 6, 2010); publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, featuring broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; annually reaches more than 8,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs; and provides crucial support to the Bay Area filmmaking community through SFFS Filmmaker Services including FilmHouse Residencies, Fiscal Sponsorship, the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, the Herbert Family Filmmaking Grants, the Hearst Screening Grant, the Djerassi/SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship, SFFS Film Arts Forums and professional-level filmmaker classes.
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Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is a critical, virtual journey through the psyche of Roy Sullivan—the real-life American who purportedly holds the world record for being struck by lightning: seven times. Sullivan encounters and falls hopelessly in love with the enchanting Hot Wire Honey, a woman made of glow-in-the-dark electrical cords, which symbolize Sullivan’s high-voltage violence and his undeniably vital energy. Sullivan is also partially seduced by the flamboyance and graceful sophistication of the possibly inaccessible, cosmopolitan Ballerina Internationale, who seems to promise global inclusion. Sullivan’s adversary, the prickly and competitive Testosterony Pony, flaunts a masculinity that Sullivan can never achieve and also steals his love.
Performance artist, dancer, filmmaker and choreographer Catherine Galasso’s motivation has been to find a unique mode of expression that extends beyond traditional boundaries between media. She combines the ephemeral qualities of performance with the illusive permanence of film and video in order to create cutting-edge and provocative narratives. Although her pieces differ greatly in theme and execution, they are for the most part based on modern myth and idiosyncratic stories that inspire and move her. In terms of content, the eclectic pieces that constitute Galasso’s body of work are united by an ongoing fascination with stories of human struggle.
“Catherine Galasso’s work exemplifies the type of multidisciplinary art that we look to present in our KinoTek programs,” said Sean Uyehara, SFFS programmer. “She creates a balance between narrative and abstract elements, weaves together aesthetics and politics, and juxtaposes technology and tradition to portray stories of human struggle.”
KinoTek programs present cinematic works that illuminate the ways in which burgeoning technologies alter the production, distribution and exhibition of media. The program highlights new technologies, cross-platform works and interactive elements and explores how these platforms help create new aesthetic and social experiences. To date, the KinoTek programs have included live cinema, VJing, mobile media, games, user-generated content, interactive animation, locative media and more.
Tickets $15 year-round SFFS members, $18.00 general, $16.50 seniors, students and persons with disabilities; Tickets available online at www.sffs.org, by calling 925.866.9559 or by faxing 925.866.9597. Box office opens October 23 for SFFS members and October 29 for the general public.
Full schedule and information: sffs.org/screenings-and-events
For screeners and interviews contact Hilary Hart at 415-561-5022 or hilary@sffs.org.
For photos and press materials visit: http://download.sffs.org/press/04_Special_Screenings/
Catherine Galasso: Lightning Never Strikes the Same Place Twice is presented with support from the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
San Francisco Film Society is a nonprofit arts organization dedicated to celebrating film and the moving image in all its glorious forms. SFFS year-round programs and events are concentrated in four core areas: Celebrating Internationalism, Inspiring Bay Area Youth, Showcasing Bay Area Film Culture and Exploring New Digital Media. The Film Society shows the best of world cinema year-round on its SFFS Screen at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas; presents the longest-running film festival in the Americas, the SF International (April 22–May 6, 2010); publishes a daily online magazine, SF360.org, featuring broad-ranging news and features on Bay Area film and media; annually reaches more than 8,000 students ages 6–18 with its acclaimed media literacy programs; and provides crucial support to the Bay Area filmmaking community through SFFS Filmmaker Services including FilmHouse Residencies, Fiscal Sponsorship, the SFFS/Kenneth Rainin Foundation Filmmaking Grants, the Herbert Family Filmmaking Grants, the Hearst Screening Grant, the Djerassi/SFFS Screenwriting Fellowship, SFFS Film Arts Forums and professional-level filmmaker classes.
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