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The second installment of the Noise Pop Film Festival weighs in this year with 3 features and 3 shorts focused on or around music.
Thanks to the San Francisco Film Society for their help! All Screenings at: Artists' Television Access 992 Valencia Street (415) 824-3890 |
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The Shield Around The K | ||
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Friday, March 2 - 7:00 PM
United States, 85 Minutes, 1999 Directed by Heather Rose Dominic, starring Calvin Johnson, Ian MacKaye, Slim Moon, Mecca Normal Influential and long-standing indie label K Records gets the Ken Burns treatment here as Woodstock native Heather Rose Dominic trains her camera on Calvin Johnson and all his pals (and a lone dissenting critic). Interview footage with Ian MacKaye, Ira Robbins, Gerard Cosloy, Dean Wareham, Lois, Mecca Normal and many more rock microstars mixes with live performances, super-8 music videos and rare footage from the International Pop Underground Festival. Showing with: Ear Eye Data Poop Directed by Thomas Campbell, Music by Tommy Guerrero A series of avant garde short films forms this companion to Tommy Guerrero's "A Little Bit of Somethin'" LP. Directed by Thomas Campbell, best known for his Unsane skating-is-painful video. |
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The Scott and Gary Show | ||
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Saturday March 3 - 2 p.m.
United States, 80 Minutes, 2000 Directed by Jeff Krulik, starring Scott Lewis, Gary Winter, the Beastie Boys, the Butthole Surfers, Half Japanese Jeff Krulik, renowned in indie rock circles for his hilarious "Parking Lot" films "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" and "Neil Diamond Parking Lot," is a prodigious documentarian, with 30+ films and fragments of po-mo cool under his belt. Scott Lewis and Gary Winter were the hosts of a much-loved, now almost forgotten New York public access show that featured performances from bands like Half Japanese, the Beastie Boys (in their Cookie Puss era, with later Luscious Jackson member Kate in tow), Ben Vaughn and the Butthole Surfers, among many other mid-80s rock nutcases. This film is a retrospective of that lost treasure, featuring all of the above and more. Until you've seen public access hosts wrestling with the Velvet Monkeys (feat. Don Fleming) in their underwear, you'll feel like you're still living at home. Showing with: Short TBA |
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Driver 23 | ||
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Sunday, March 4 - 7 p.m.
United States, 72 minutes, 1999N Directed by Rolf Belgum, starring Dan Cleveland Minnesota deliveryman Dan Cleveland has high hopes for his progressive metal band Dark Horse. But real and imagined forces conspire against him at every turn -- band members abandon him, the ramp he's building to load gear up from his basement keeps breaking, he doesn't have an appropriate "isolation room" for his basement studio. Still, Cleveland keeps trudging ahead in this alternately dark and comic documentary about aspirations, mental illness and the low side of the music biz in the midwest. And Cleveland's wife, shown here mostly as an off-duty clown (getting into makeup, usually), provides offbeat moral support. Some may want to tag it the "American Movie" of midwestern speed metal, and that comparison is fairly apt. Showing with: The Flaming Lips Have Landed United States, 29 minutes, 1999 A charming look at Oklahoma's own masters of noise and melody, the Flaming Lips. Beesley's doc charts the rise of the Lips, from Wayne Coyne's days working at Long John Silver's Fish and Chips through their various phases and stunts, from psychedelic-tinged early records to the Boombox Experiments to Coyne's music videos. |
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