• Film and Video shorts on the theme of MONEY! by filmmakers Henry Hills, Mary Filippo, Lev, Joe Gibbbons, Jorge Furtado, Hans Richter, & many others.
  
  
• Make a Movie! Participate in making a group hand-made film that will screen at the end of the show.
  
  
• Raffles of your favorite local filmmakers works on DVD & VHS. Plus other objects d'art (among the contributors are Alfred Guzzetti, Abraham Ravett, Robert Todd, Joe Gibbons, Saul Levine, Brittany Gravely, Robert Arnold, Karen Aqua and many others).
  
  
• Balagan Memorabilia! Our Balagan T-shirts will be hot off the press.

Money 16mm, 15min, 1985 (donated by the filmmaker for our show)
Director: Henry Hills

MONEY (1985) is an historical document of the early days of "language poetry" and the downtown improvised music scene. A manic collage film from the mid-80s when it still seemed that Reaganism of the soul could be defeated. Filmed primarily on the streets of Manhattan for the ambient sounds and movements and occasional pedestrian interaction to create a rich tapestry of swirling colors and juxtaposed architectural spaces in deep focus and present the intense urban overflowing energy that is experience living here. MONEY is thematically centered around a discussion of economic problems facing avant-garde artists. Discussion, however, is fragmented into words and phrases and reassembled into writing. Musical and movement phrases are woven through this conversation to create an almost operatic composition. Give me money!

Starring: John Zorn, Diane Ward, Carmen Vigil, Susie Timmons, Sally Silvers, Ron Silliman, James Sherry, David Moss, Mark Miller, Christian Marclay, Arto Lindsay, Pooh Kaye, Fred Frith, Alan Davies, Tom Cora, Jack Collom, Yoshiko Chuma, Abigail Child, Charles Bernstein, Derek Bailey, andBruce Andrews.

Includes rare footage of the premieres of Zorn's CROQUET at Soundscape and TRACK & FIELD at Roulette, the Toy Killers at Studio Henry (One Morton Street), and early Skeleton Crew at the Public Theatre.

Born in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), Henry Hills has made 22 short experimental films since 1975 which have been shown in numerous festivals around the world. Hills received his B.A. in English from Washington & Lee University. He was a conscientious objector during the Viet Nam war. From 1977-80, Hills edited CINEMANEWS, a West Coast film journal. Throughout his career he has been active as a curator, organizing programs at Anthology Film Archives, Millennium, Collective for Living Cinema, Roulette, Segue and various clubs and galleries. Upon moving to New York in 1978 he began an association with the "Language" poets and with the first generation Downtown improvised music scene. MONEY (1985) documents these movements of the early 80s with an all-star artist cast, while simultaneously developing parallel formal innovations. One of the densest sync-sound films ever made (2500 "scenes" in 15 min), MONEY, which remains entertaining today, was the culmination of a string of radically formal investigatory studies (PLAGIARISM and RADIO ADIOS) into the possibilities of sound/image sync. He has recently finished editing the Austrian documantary feature IN THE MIRROR OF MAYA DEREN. http://www.henryhills.com

Money movie video, 5min, 2003 (created and donated by the filmmaker for our show)
Director: Joe Gibbons

Joe Gibbons works in film and video, making features and shorts. His work has been shown at numerous museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum, and included twice in the Whitney Biennial, and is regularly included in the NY Video Festival and the Rotterdam Film Festival. His last feature The Genius, starring Karen Finley and himself, had a month-long run in NYC at Anthology Film Archives and was included in such festivals as New Directors/New Films, AFI and Rotterdam. He lives in Boston and teaches at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Trickle Down Theory of Sorrow video, 15min, 2002 (donated by the filmmaker for our show)
Director: Mary Filippo

THE TRICKLE DOWN THEORY OF SORROW situates and incriminates the filmmaker in the web of economic and social injustices of her culture. It is an experimental, autobiographical documentary about being the daughter of a working-class mother, and someone who has become middle-class (economically at least) and a mother herself. The core of the film is an interview with Filippo’s mother, in which she describes worker exploitation and gender discrimination in the jewelry factories she worked in during the forties and fifties. The filmmaker connects and contrasts her own experiences and attitudes toward work, class and gender roles with her mother’s. While her mother's attitude toward the social injustices she endured is one of resignation, Filippo’s is one of assumed but uncollected responsibility.

In the last twenty years Mary Filippo has made four, short, painstakingly crafted, experimental films. Thematically all of her films situate the filmmaker in the contradictions and social injustices of our culture. Filippo first studied filmmaking with the Marjorie Keller at the University of Rhode Island and then went to the Art Institute of Chicago where she took classes with George Landow, P. Adams Sitney and B. Ruby Rich. She lived in NYC for many years, where she made most of her films. She currently lives in Rhode Island and teaches at the Massachusetts College of Art.

Isle of Flowers 16mm, 15min, 1990 (Brazil)
Director: Jorge Furtado

"From Brazil, this is a hilarious but ultimately devastating film about values, the food chain, and the human condition on a real life Brazilian island where pigs eat first, and the people are fed what the pigs leave over." - Ikarus First Run Films. Awards: Blue Ribbon Winner, 1991 American Film Festival, 1991 Sundance Film Festival

"The human disaster of poverty is brilliantly depicted here. Anyone who wishes to stimulate an exploration of our human condition - of work and poverty, of despair and hunger, and of moral challenge - will find this an extraordinarily powerful and important film." - Hospital & Community Psychiatry

The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade video, 6min, 2003
Director: Jino Choi

"Now, for the first time ever, the hidden prophecies of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic, The Lord of the Rings, are decoded in this accurate re-edit of Peter Jackson's blockbuster motion picture. Unknownst to many readers, The Lord of the Rings - once thought to be merely a story of archetypal struggle between good and evil - has been found to contain astute prophetic messages about the impending crisis of capitalist modernity.

Numerous scholars and linguists have already deciphered the main theme of The Lord of the Rings as being the freedom of ordinary people to be left alone from the ruling elites. However, Tolkien's hidden messages about the disasters of capitalism and the insightful predictions about the current political climate have not been made public until now. The Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade includes subtitles of the decoded dialogues in painstaking detail and the true identities that the story's characters represent within the prophecy.
Hado i philinn!" - Jino Choi

and others...