One of the balagany traditional series bring one more round of works by the extraordinary experimental filmmakers who teach at the local colleges and universities.

Struck by the Hand/Manifesto! (in collaboration w/ Andrew Castrucci) 10 min, video, 2001
Window 5min, video, 2001
Director: Jeanne Liotta

Struck by the Hand/Manifesto! April Fools Day - guerilla action performed on the steps of the Met by Italo Zamboni, the last painter of the 20th century. 41 bottles of urine lined up in the sun and spilled on the steps. High culture meets low in the color of gold . Window - five actual minutes in Owego NY. Jeanne Liotta, experimental filmmaker and artist; work exhibited at New York Film Festival, MoMA, Whitney Museum, Exit Art, Rotterdam Film Festival, and London Film Festival; archivist, Joseph Cornell Collection at Anthology Film Archives; founder, Firefly Cinema, public outdoor screenings at 6-B Community Garden on the Lower East Side; has taught at SUNY-Binghamton and Pratt Inst.

Sodom S8, 21min, 1989
TBA
Director: Luther Price

Luther Price is a renowned experimental filmmaker working in S8 format. He is currently teaching at the School of Museum of Fine Arts.

"Like all of Price¹s films, this hardcore "Biblical epic"-cum s&m porn flick exists in many versions. His refusal to let the work alone after it¹s made, his insistence on the "aliveness" of the film-object, is one of the most exhilarating aspects of his work. In spite of the oppressive, claustrophobic imagery, the films have a strong sense of life. In Sodom, this sense comes partly from Price¹s consummate interventions, which here take the form of a literal film-within-a-film. He punched holes in the Super-8 frames and meticulously inserted the porn footage, which moves with jackhammer rhythm against the rapid-cut "Sodom" footage and a distorted medieval liturgy score. The conflation of what look like screaming souls in hell with images of edgy queer sex was enough to get the film banned even from the allegedly sophisticated New York and San Francisco gay festivals.

Price¹s film work has an oppressive intensity, envisioning an alienated world of often mindlessly repeated rituals and poses that entrap and suffocate his subjects. He sets up a constant dialogue between his compromised victim-subjects (often himself or his own family) and the equally compromised film stock itself. Images of ruptured flesh and ghostly birthday parties are further ruptured and drained of life by Price¹s torturous manipulations of the film, which can include chemical processing, filters, optical printing, re-photography, and even holes punched in the frame. What emerges is Price¹s great subject ‹ the breaches, breakdowns, and collapse of body, family, and society, and by extension all of life, in the face of unstoppable philosophical forces. What makes it work is the nonstop flow of extraordinary, unforgettable imagery." - Gary Morris, Bright Lights Film Journal http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/29/lutherprice.html

Kibbitzer 10min, video, 2000
Yoren 6min, video, 2000
Sad Gun 2min, video, 1999 -- world premiere
Director: Saul Levine

Experiments in/with digital video of the guru super8 filmmaker... Saul Levine has been making films since 1964. He works in Regular 8, Super 8. 16MM, and DV. His works have been shown on every contintent except Antarctica. Saul has been a film professor since 1968 and teaching at Mass College of Arts for the last 22 years.

Note* The term kibbitzer (and thus the verb to kibbitz) comes from the chess cafes of central Europe at the start of the century. A kibbitzer did not play chess, but watched other people playing, and possibly made comments on their play.