Newsletter 7, November 2002
Newsletter #7 November 2002
In this issue:
1. KINETICA™ 4 Premieres December 3rd
The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia
2. Jordan Belson Video Released
KINETICA™ 4 Premieres December 3rd
Our last KINETICA™, “K3,” featured works from
the 1950s, the era of Jazz and The Beats. It was
only logical that KINETICA™ 4 examine the 60s, a
time of intense experimentation with psychedelic
drugs, psychedelic imagery, a flowering of interest
in Eastern religions and mysticism, and a widespread
adoption of film and video as a means of personal
expression.
Curated by film scholar and visual music authority
Dr. Bill Moritz, K4 surveys this period with works by
Jordan Belson, Stephen Beck, John and James
Whitney, Scott Bartlett, Pat O’Neill and others, plus
a rare film documentation of a light show performance
by The Single Wing Turquoise Bird.
Many of these films have been newly preserved especially
for KINETICA™. As usual, this focused historical program will
be accompanied by a broad overview of abstraction in
contemporary film, video and computer animation, featuring
works by David Lebrun, Robert Darroll, Ying Tan, Stephanie
Maxwell and many others.
For a complete list of titles, and the most up to date schedule
of screenings, visit the K4 website:
KINETICA™ 4
KINETICA™ 4
The Sixties: Spirituality and Psychedelia
will be screened at the following venues:
Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Program 1: December 3, 2002, 7:30 pm
Program 2: December 5, 2002, 7:30 pm
Information: (510) 642-0808
Anthology Film Archive, New York
A Special KINETICA™ Weekend:
KINETICA™ 4 and KINETICA™ 3
K4 Program 1: December 20, 2002, 8:00 pm
K4 Program 2: December 21, 2002, 8:00 pm
K3 Program 1: December 21, 2002, 5:30 pm
K3 Program 2: December 22, 2002, 6:00 pm
Information: (212) 505-5181
KINETICA™ 3 and 4 will repeat in early January 2003
Information on KINETICA™ 3 can be found here:
KINETICA™ 3
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Program 1: January 17, 2003
Program 2: January 18, 2003
Information: 323Â857Â6010
Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
February 1, 2003
Program 1: 7pm
Program 2: 9pm
February 2, 2003
Program 1: 7pm
Program 2: 9pm
Information: 617-495-4700
Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Program 1: February 12, 2003
Program 2: February 19, 2003
Tickets: Bell Infoline (416) 968-FILM
Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA
Visual Music Festival
Spring, 2003 Date to be Announced
KINETICA™ 4 was produced by iotaCenter director
Cindy Keefer and is supported in part by a grant from
The National Endowment for the Arts.
Additional support was received from The California
Arts Council and The Getty Grant Program. Thanks
to the National Film Preservation Foundation for their
ongoing support of our preservation activities which
made the presentation of many of these films possible.
For booking information please contact info@iotacenter.org
Jordan Belson Video Released
Jordan Belson’s latest film, “Bardo” (currently
traveling in KINETICA™ 3), is now available on
videotape in iota’s KINETICA™ Video Library.
This first volume of Belson’s collected films
also includes “Cycles” (1975) and “Northern
Lights” (1985).
A second volume, “Jordan Belson, Four Early
Films,” will be released soon and will include :
Allures (1961)
World (1970)
Chakra (1972)
Music of the Spheres (1977)
“Jordan Belson, Collected Films” and other
tapes in the KINETICA™ Video Library series
are available from The iotaCenter Store