Film and Live Performance!
LIVE CINEMA AT THE FRENETIC THEATER

cosponsored with the Aurora Picture Show

featuring
Films by Sam Green, Brent Green, Esther Robinson and Danny Williams and live music by the Quavers, Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and John Michael Swartz

Sam Green
Sam Green is a San Francisco-based documentary filmmaker. His feature The Weather Underground was nominated for an Academy Award, broadcast nationally on PBS, and included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. His other awardwinning documentaries include lot 63, grave c, The Rainbow Man/John 3:16, N-Judah 5:30, and Pie Fight ’69. His work has won awards and been featured in many festivals, among them Sundance, the London Film Festival, and Locarno, where he won the Critics Choice Award.

Brent Green
Brent Green is a self-taught animation filmmaker and artist whose works have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival (2006-9), MoMA, the Getty Center, Warhol Museum and a ton of other museums and festivals around the world. He’s had solo shows at the Bellwether Gallery (NYC), the Sculpture Center (Cleveland), Site Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM), The Berkeley Art Museum, and currently DiverseWorks (Houston). Green’s artwork is represented by the Andrew Edlin Gallery, NYC. He is a 2005 Creative Capital grantee.

Esther Robinson
Esther Robinson is the founder of ArtHome, a non-profit business that helps artists and their communities build assets and equity through financial literacy and homeownership. From 1999 to 2006 Esther was the Director of Film/Video and Performing Arts for the Creative Capital Foundation. Prior to this, Esther was series producer at Alive TV and co-founder of Wavelength Releasing, which was responsible for the first fully digital film release. Esther produced the feature documentary Home Page with acclaimed filmmaker Doug Block. Her feature documentary, A Walk into the Sea, won top prizes at the Berlin, Tribeca and Chicago film festivals in 2007.

The Quavers
The Quavers are T. Griffin, Catherine McRae and Dennis Cronin. They coax a luminous sound out of decayed samplers, walkmans, vibraphonette, footpedal loopers, tape echo violin and homespun harmonies. In addition to their CD Lit By Your Phone they’ve collaborated on dozens of film scores, plays, live soundtracks and music projects with artists as diverse as Patti Smith, Anne Bogart, Jem Cohen, Vic Chesnutt, Michael Almereyda, Tom Verlaine, DJ/Rupture and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Dave Cerf
Dave Cerf is a filmmaker, musician, sound artist, and software designer. He composed music for Scott Kennedy’s film OT: and Sam Green’s The Weather Underground, and performed live musical and sound accompaniment over the films of Jennifer Reeves, Pat O’Neill, and Melinda Stone. Dave also tours both in the U.S. and internationally with Threnody Ensemble.

Donna K.
Donna K. has made animations for the fiction journal Electric Literature, the band Drew & the Medicinal Pen and, more recently, for her own musical efforts. After working on artist/filmaker Brent Green’s first feature film, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, she can also add acting, hammering and writing to her list of current accomplishments.

Brendan Canty
Brendan Canty is best known as the drummer in the band Fugazi, which he joined in 1987. In addition to producing records for all kinds of great band (the Thermals, Ted Leo, Garland of Hours, Benjy Ferree), Canty frequently composes soundtrack music, primarily for Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel documentaries and independent features. In 2004, Canty co-founded the DVD label Trixie to release an ongoing series of music-related films, and has produced films about Bob Mould, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Eddie Vedder and the Decemberists.

John Michael Swartz
John Michael Swartz plays the cello and composes experimental computer music. His work covers a lot of ground: from chance, improvisation, and Fluxusstyle happenings, to generative algorithmic structures, granular synthesis, and other mathy things.

Drew Henkels
Drew Henkels has released two albums, toured the East Coast and Mid-West, and helped to create the Homemade Music Video Festival and Philadelphia based art collective Adaptation. His band Drew & the Medicinal Pen provides a soundtrack to the dust-bunny world of his dream logs, films, and photographs.

Double Feature!
A Walk Into the Sea:
Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory

Thursday, November 11, 6:45pm
In 1966 Danny Williams disappeared. He was Andy Warhol’s lover, a filmmaker and the designer of the Velvet Underground Exploding Plastic Inevitable lightshow. Esther Robinson was Danny’s cousin, and A Walk into the Sea is her investigation.

Danny Williams: Factory Films

Thursday, November 11, 8:45pm
Three of Williams’ films, intimate experimental portraits of Warhol Factory luminaries including Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol and the earliest known footage of the Velvet Underground, are screened in their entirety, with live music accompaniment by The Quavers.

Utopia in Four Movements

Friday, November 12, 6:45pm
In this “live documentary” on the battered state of the utopian impulse today, filmmaker Sam Green cues images and narrates in person while sound designer/ musician Dave Cerf and the Quavers perform the soundtrack.

Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

Friday, November 12, 9:45pm
Shot entirely on the full-scale town he built in his backyard, Green combines animation, stop-motion and live-action in an ethereal opus to lovers and tinkerers everywhere. Cosponsored with DiverseWorks, which is exhibiting sculptures and props designed by Green in a November exhibition.