AUGUST 2018 at the SALON

                   

Filmers Almanac  by Owen O'Toole (deceased) + others

(1988)  1 hr 37 min.

Notes from presenter tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE:

"Filmers Almanac v(ideo)ersion #2" - a collaborative project conceived of & assembled by Owen O'Toole.  Starting possibly as early as 1986 & definitely no later than the beginning of 1987, Owen O'Toole solicited super-8mm filmmakers worldwide to pick a day in 1988 to shoot one roll of super-8 film.  This film was then to be sent to Owen to be used as part of one long "Almanac" for the year.  I was a participant as were 111 other filmers.  Owen then gave live performances of the "Filmers Almanac" which involved multiple projectors, probably usually just 2, with one of the projectors on a Lazy Susan so he could easily move its projection from one side to the other or overtop of the fixed projection.  He also improvised a soundtrack mixing various tapes, as well as the soundtrack on the films that had them.  One of the tapes he used was one that I'd made, in conjunction with my collaborator John Berndt, using BBC Transitions & Cues sound-effects.  In 1989, I was honored to receive a one-of-a-kind transfer to VHS of 50 of the Almanac films.  This was only the 2nd transfer that Owen had made at that point.  The filmmakers represented were Catherine Rebois; Gary Adelstein; Ar Garfield, Zoe Thurling; Zeno; Wayne Morris; Suzanne Grziwa (soundtrack by M. Geiss); Minoy; JG Morales; Joan Lobell, Michael Geiss; Cecile Fontaine; Bill White; Willie Varela; Pamela Nelson; Berserker; Michael Helsem (soundtrack by G. Adlestein); Anne Robertson; Laura Trussell; Mary Albrecht; George Hornbein (soundtrack by J. Liotta); Terry Pollack; Elizabeth Menetrey; John Gianvito; Patty Karl; RM Tariant; Tim Good; Ma[r?]ianne Usonov; Shigeru Nakayama; Jurgen Dohrn; Katherine St. Clair (soundtrack by Re Bossanova); Vivian Ostrovsky; Joseph Grossberg; tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE; C. Webber/D. Vaughan; Roberta Crown; Buz Blurr; Peter Clasen; John McClintock; Leela Wali; Philip Perkins; Barry Czawsa; Crag Hill; Jonathan Edelman (soundtrack by M. Cousineau); Suze Riddle; Schmelzdahin; J. Pierre Roy; Bruno Charpentier; Dahan Belle (soundtrack by Schmelzdahin); & Matthias Müller.  In the letter that accompanied this VHS transfer, Owen encouraged me to "digitize it or yodelize it and send it out amongst yr own work".  I hope you enjoy this ONE-OF-A-KIND TRANSFER.  It has some 'adult' material so consider yourself forewarned.  I've also added a few ephemera scans such as of the letter that accompanied the tape. 

This Doc Salon is a collaboration with the Underappreciated Moviemakers Festival, Aug.1-4.

Thursday, August 2
7:30p  Food & Drink
8:00p  Screening

Followed by a great narrative film...

Dick Turner (in person from Paris):  "Nature Morte avec des Oranges" (Still Life with Oranges) (2016) 

50:18 - In the near future everyone wears invisible chains; all are hypnotized by the seductive tinkling. Against all odds, a young girl decides to help an artist-alchemist to find "The Combination": the mystical sequence of actions that can change the order of things. But when the all-powerful Superior Chain Company becomes aware of their activity they stop at nothing to destroy their plans.