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- From: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (Artist # 1)
- Subject: "WAX" in San Francisco (Help!) + plus additional playdates
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:24:11 GMT
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- Hi, not what you ordinarily read on alt.3d... but this film has about
- 12 minutes of frame based 3-d, plus a -lot- of real-time 3-d.
-
- The post:
-
- A request for HELP here,
-
- as well as the bi-monthly posting of where my film is playing, in
- case you want to catch it.
-
- ===========================================================
- "WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00)
- ===========================================================
-
- WAX opened on Friday (Jan. 1st) at the Roxie Theatre in San
- Francisco. Due to a negative synergy apparently common the last
- several months between the papers and the houses that show
- independent films, there were NO REVIEWS for the opening, as far
- as I know. So if you live in San Francisco, and have any
- familiarity with the film, could you please mention it to people
- you know. As luck would have it, there was at least a really good
- writeup by Richard Kadrey in the winter Whole Earth Review (RK
- also wrote a review in Mondo back in August)... but it is really
- word of mouth which will save this run.
-
- The number at the Roxie is : (415) 863 1087
-
- The film moves over to the UC in Berkeley on Friday, Jan. 8, for
- 2 days, (9 shows). There is are some new chances for press
- there, but I am afraid that the same situation may hold true...
- so, hello Berkeley... are you out there? If you know about WAX,
- please tell someone else about it.
-
- If you don't know anything about the film, you can write me, and
- I will send you a text file (about 70k now) with newspaper
- reviews, and a variety of descriptions; included are some net
- reviews I either found, or was lucky enough to have forwarded on
- to me. The film has already made 2 "10 best" lists here in New
- York (NY Press and another).
-
-
- You can write me at:
-
- artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (my name is David Blair)
-
-
- Obviously, I am self-distributing, in case you wonder why I have
- taken the taking the liberty of posting.
-
-
- -------------
- Following are some quotes, to warm you up, then the listing of
- playdates up until spring:
-
-
- William Gibson (author, Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc.) on WAX:
-
- "Authentically peculiar. Like something from the network vaults
- of an alternate universe."
-
- William T. Vollman (author, "You Bright and Risen Angels", "The
- Iceshirt", "The Rainbow Stories", all Penguin/Viking Press)
-
- "I admire your dark and paranoid visions in all of their
- intergalactic complexity."
-
- Larry McCaffery (editor, "Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook
- on Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction", Duke University Press):
-
- "WAX strikes me as a truly major accomplishment, intellectually
- rich, verbally inventive, visually stunning, and -- perhaps most
- remarkable of all -- as emotionally resonant as any film I've
- come across in recent years."
-
- Brooks Landon (author, "Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking SF
- Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production", Greenwood Press)
-
- "WAX is like no movie you have ever seen. Call it postmodern,
- postcyberpunk... or post cinema, the point is this 85 minute
- celebration of the possibilities of "electronic cinema" may well
- indicate the future direction of SF film, if not "film" itself.
-
- Timothy Leary
-
- "WAX is a treat for the eyeballs, a delight for the receptor
- sites, a brilliant illumination for our left brains and our right
- brains!"
-
-
-
-
- Here are the screenings:
-
- Jan. 1-7
- Roxie, San Francisco
- Sat, Sun: 2,4,6,8,10 / Mon-Thur 6,8,10 (except no show Wed. at 8)
- (on film)
-
- Jan. 8.9
- UC, Berkeley
- Friday: 5,7,9,11 / Sat: 1,3,5,7,9
-
- Jan. 14, Jan. 21
- Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
- time ?
- (video projection... one of the best in the country)
-
- Jan. 15
- Media Lab, MIT
- closed screening (but not sure)
- (video projection; maker present)
-
- Jan. 21
- Knitting Factory, New York
- 7:30 pm (Knot Room)
- (video; maker present)
-
- Jan. 27, 28
- Watershed Cinema, Bristol, UK
- (film)
-
- Feb. 6th
- Cornell Cinema, on campus of Cornell University
- part of the VR-film weekend
- (film)
-
- Feb. 11, 12
- Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
- (film)
-
- week of Feb. 16th
- Filmhouse, Edinburgh, UK
- sometime that week
- (film)
-
- Feb. 24-28th
- Brown University, Providence, RI
- as part of Vanguard Festival, mainly experimental, cyberpunk, and
- hypertext writers, with some visual artists. Attendees include
- Kathy Acker, Mark Leyner, Larry McCaffery, and about 30 others.
- Sponsored by the English Department (Robert Coover). If you're in
- Providence, check it out!
- (film; maker present)
-
- March 4-7
- Hillus Intermediale Projektforschung, Vienna, Austria
- as part of an Austrian symposium called "On-Line"; no more info
- available at this moment
- (video; maker present)
-
- March 26th
- Saratoga Springs Public Library
- evening
- (video; maker present)
-
- Proposed for this period are a number of dates- not firmly fixed
- yet. These are:
-
- early March
- STUC, Leuven, Belgium
- (film; maker present)
-
- mid-March
- Upstate Cinema, Rhinebeck, NY
- (film; maker present)
-
- late-March
- The Movies, Portland, Maine
- (film)
-
- April (?)
- UNM, Albuquerque
- (film)
-
- May (?)
- Clinton St. Theatre, Portland, Oregon
- (film)
-
- Film openings in Boston, Chicago, Washington are also possible
- (in case you're curious why you're not listed).
-
- A Japanese-language film version will open in Tokyo in the early
- summer.
-
-
- Thanks for your attention. If you think of a good venue, let me
- know!
-
-
- If you are curious about cassettes, I am selling a limited
- edition of 500, signed and numbered, to help pay off the post
- production and distribution expenses. They are $36 postpaid. My
- address is
-
- David Blair
- P.O. Box 174,
- Cooper Station
- New York, NY 10276
-
-
- in the UK, PAL versions, within this numbered sequence, are
- available for 22 pounds (postpaid) from:
-
- NSFA
- c/o Chris Reed
- BBR
- PO Box 625
- Sheffield S13GY, UK
-
-