Join us Sunday, February 27th at 7:00pm.
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 824-3890
ata@atasite.org

Radical collective Red Channels is in town from New York City, and is bringing rare films and videos to screen, and for use in stimulating open discussion. This program features early examples of video art, collectively produced documentary, and recent reenactments. Featuring work with Angela Davis and Valerie Solanas, and two rare productions by Carole Roussopoulos.

–Jean Genet parle d’Angela Davis – Carole Roussopoulos, 1970, 7 minutes
–The Woman’s Film – San Francisco Newsreel, 1971, 40 minutes
–SCUM Manifesto – Carole Roussopoulos & Delphine Seyrig, 1976, 26 minutes
–Performing SCUM – Angela Marzullo, 2005, 6 minutes
–The Liberation of Our People [excerpt] – Mark Tribe, 2008, 5 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 84 minutes | Digital Projection

Red Channels is a radical collective from New York City. they organize public events and use various forms of art and media to facilitate open discussions on culture and politics.
www.redchannels.org

Announcing Cut and Run’s 2011 Experimental European Tour – Call for Submissions – Call for Venue Proposals

Cut and Run began in early 2009 in San Francisco as a single screening event at Artists’ Television Access. It has since evolved into an annual traveling film festival featuring experimental and avant-garde cinema, both contemporary and past works.

C + R celebrates works that deviate from mainstream and traditional cinema and opt towards authentic, brave, challenging, stylized, alternative and imagined subjects. The call for submissions has no direct set theme. The program themes develop around the sense we make of the selected works as well as individual sought-out films that provoked and inspired us. In other words, our programs are inspired after we see your work.

Please send us your 25 min. or less piece on DVD or miniDV tape by mail. Contact us at cutandruntour@gmail.com to obtain address info.

C + R is also accepting venue proposals for exhibitions for our European Tour. We are seeking venues overseas that are equipped for both Film and Video projection.

Submitting to The Cut and Run Film Festival

Thank you for your interest in submitting to Cut and Run. The call to submit work considered for the 2011 European Tour will end on Thursday, April 7th 2011. You may still submit work after the date, but it will be considered for a future program.

You may reach us at cutandruntour@gmail.com to obtain a mailing address.

You may either print this form with your information included or you may send your own written information. Please include the following information per submitted piece:

1. Title
2. Director
3. Year Completed
4. Country of Production
5. Desired Screening Format
6. Check or cash (at your own risk) for $10 USD for ONE film submitted. $15 USD for TWO or MORE films submitted. There is no limit to the number of films you can submit, and submissions fees will not exceed $15 USD.
7. Synopsis

Please include your contact information and note most correspondence will be done via e-mail.

Address
E-mail address
Phone number
Webpage (If applicable)

Please acknowledge the following, if your piece is selected:

1. For the 2011 European tour, we may need French, German, and Spanish subtitles for any film with dialog or text.
2. We will compile and distribute a limited edition of this Cut and Run program.
3. Artist will receive an artist’s payment of $50 to include their film in this program and on dvd, along with a Cut and Run t-shirt and other souvenirs from the festival.
4. Allowable screening formats vary depending on our venue host; Filmmakers will be notified of which options are available.

On another note, we would like to add that we do have plans for a 2011 European tour and are taking submissions as you read this. If you’d like to submit your work please email us at cutandruntour@gmail.com for more info.

And now I will leave you with some photos from the tour!

A very heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone that helped out with this kickstarter project. Thanks to all the filmmakers, friends, and family for spreading the word and getting us the kickstart we needed! Thanks to Visa Victor from Argus Lounge for hosting our benefit night, Tony DuShane for writing it up on SFgate.com, and Jesse Gonzalez for DJing and being a huge support throughout C+R’s history.

An EXTRA BIG THANK YOU to our donors:
Alberto Cabrera Bernal
Linda Abel
Sarah Gunn
Andre Valentim Almeida
Raymond Rea
Richard Wiebe
Jennifer Devine
Tee Devine
Rebecca Knotts
Jim Knotts
Cheryl Wright
Douglas Tarpin
Dustin Zemel
Isabel Fondevila
Elena Eustaquio
J G Solondz
Ignacio Fletes
Michael J Lutman
Sylvia Schedelbauer
Barbra Stuter
Robbie Wilkins
Brenda Abel
Jessica Osborne
Hannah Piper Burns
Laura Costantino
Gabriel Goldstein
Joel Garber
Fara Schiedal
Cindy Zeigler
Karl Lind
Stuart M Davenport
Lauren Davis
Brenna McLaughlin
Erin Persley
You Never Know Radio
Emilee Serafine
Molly Kars
Melissa Curiel
Dwight Lau
Fred Wilson
Grace Franco
Thomas Roth
Veronica Contreras
and
Rebecca Contreras

This tour could not have been as extensive without your support!!

We’ll be out on the second leg of our 2010 tour from October 11th until November 2nd and will be stopping at the following venues:

October 13- Dartmouth College- Hanover, NH
October 15- Kings County Cinema Society – Brooklyn
October 20-Moviate Microcinema- Harrisburg, PA
October 21- Mina’s Gallery- Baltimore, Maryland
October 23- Millennium Film Workshop – NYC
October 26- Flex Fest -Gainesville, FL
October 29- Zeitgeist Arts Center -New Orleans
November 2- The Nightingale – Chicago

Thanks again everyone! We hope to see you out along the road!

October 13th- Dartmouth College- Hood Museum Loew Auditorium- Hanover, NH
October 15th- TBA- Brooklyn, NY
October 20th-Moviate Microcinema- Harrisburg, PA
October 21st- Mina’s Gallery- Baltimore, Maryland
October 26th- Flex Fest -Gainesville, FL
October 29- Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center -New Orleans, LA
November 2- The Nightingale – Chicago, IL

Past Screenings:
July 17th- Grand Detour- Portland, OR
July 31st- Artists’ Television Access- San Francisco
August 14th- Beatnik Studios- Sacramento
August 21st- Echo Park Film Center- Los Angeles

Wednesday, Sept 15th at 8PM will be “Bad Movie Night” at Argus Lounge, 3197 Mission St in San Francisco. All proceeds go to benefiting Cut and Run Tour, a traveling film festival specializing in the exhibition of short avant-garde and experimental video and film programs.

$2 dollar entrance fee (sliding scale) and drink ticket raffles throughout the night!

Tunes by DJ Squid (Punk+Core+Post+Wave+ Alt Rock Music) and pool table in the back room

*films should be under 10 mins, DVD format, and have been made by you!

can’t make it to the benefit? Donate online at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cutandrun/cut-and-run-projecting-experimental-cinema-through

We are born, we grow, we experience a world of our own perceptions. We wonder who we’re becoming, we are influenced and we experiment. We become responsible for how we develop. We can change and reshape who we are and what we know by the powers we grant ourselves. This Cut and Run series focuses on cycles of minds, bodies, and filmstrips. Each work represents a perspective of itself as one, in contrast to others. Experience a cinematic evolution through cycles of the mind, body, and medium in this montage from filmmakers throughout the world.

12 Erased Trailers by Alberto Cabrera Bernal (2010, Spain, 11 minutes)

“Appropriation cinema from twelve 16mm trailers, to which their original promotional purpose is denied, by pulverizing the medium with an electric drill. The original images, now deleted, remind us of works from other genres as Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing, or Asger Jorn’s early paintings.”

Peeks by Jo Dery (2009, USA, 3 minutes)

“Momentary glimpses of construction and destruction in our man-made and natural world, made with the help of images collaged from National Geographic.”

Aliki by Richard Wiebe (2010, Cyprus, USA, 5 minutes)

“Lake Aliki, Cyprus. For centuries, countless flamingos have wintered here from Iran. Rimbaud encountered them when he worked a quarry in Larnaca. 7th century Arabs described them to mark the burial site of Umm Haram, aunt of the Prophet Muhammad. It is said that Lazarus spent his days on the shores of this lake after his resurrection, staring into the sun to shake off the darkness of the grave. The Greeks represented flamingos in poetry, the Romans slaughtered them for their tongues. Today, a man sings:

Pharmacist, oh pharmacist, oh pharmacist,
I want medicine for myself, I want medicine for myself,
My heart, my heart, my heart is beating like this,
My heart is afflicted because of you.”

Body by Frederic Cousseau  (2010, France,7 minutes)

“The body of a beast changing: real or nightmarish images of the own body.”

Cat’s Cradle by Ray Rea  (2010, USA, 4 minutes)

“Cat’s Cradle combines traditional film animation techniques with digital effects to create a formal experiment that centers around trial, error, and transformation. Although this piece does not have overt GLBT content, I am a Bisexual Transsexual man and the images are not about transformation and variety by accident.”

Memories by Sylvia Schedelbauer (2004, Germany, 19 minutes)

“A woman grows up during the bubbly economy in Japan. Why did her parents never speak about the past? Using a box full of photos found in her family archive, the filmmaker tries to construct one version of a family history.”

Lilly by Jodie Mack (2007, USA, 6 minutes)

“Animated photo-negatives illustrate a WWII tragedy.”

Cuts in Motion by Brenda Contreras (2008, USA, 5.5 minutes)

“A drift into the subconscious. This mixed media performance piece combines blood and swing sets with the words of marketing executives.”

*More films will be added to the lineup

July 17 2010 - Grand Detour, Portland Oregon
July 31 - ATA, San Francisco, California
August 14 - Beatnik Studios, Sacramento, California
August 21 - Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California