Monday, June 11, screening starts 8:30PM

Crazy Horse
2011, 134 min

In Crazy Horse, he pulls back the curtain on Le Crazy Horse de Paris, a landmark that has prided itself as „the best nude dancing show in the world“ since 1951. Le Crazy Horse sets itself apart from the average strip club by adhering to exacting standards in choreography, lights and physiques. The erotic revue is composed of songs and sequences that blend traits of old-fashioned burlesque, Bob Fosse and Cirque du Soleil. IMDb

Monday, June 4, screening starts 8:30PM

Dynasty
1998, 49:52 min

Paris From Behind
1999, 25 min

Run With Zeros
1999, 9 min

Risques du metier
2000, 56:14 min

At some point during the writing of this EAI bio, Antek Walczak imagined grouping all his nouvelle-vague- grammar-crust videos under the title Old Life of a Sad Film Student. While other film students in 1990s New York were directing music videos for Pavement, starting youtube-before-youtube underground film fests, or going to real film festivals like Cannes with their real films, Walczak was working at his desk in the Bowery offices of a radical offshoot of downtown fashion called Bernadette Corporation. After several years devoted to reconsidering collective avant-garde legacies in terms of the contemporary media environment, change came in the form of an internal power struggle that ended the B-Corp fashion label and split up the collective into irreconcilable factions, leaving behind a pile of tapes from unfinished fashion spots that became ma- terial for Antek‘s solo video debut. It was during this hiatus of 1998-9, between incarnations of Bernadette Corporation, that Walczak developed the post-Godardian narrated essay style that bridges works as diver- gent as The BC Corporate Story and Get Rid of Yourself.

For fun, here are titles from the various fashion model segments of the aborted 1997 BC video shoot that would become 1998s Dynasty: Animals in Your Neighborhood; Fresh Brats‘ Worst; The Robots are Ready; We never loved your body; Lady in a Jam. This is to point out the language that came out of the completely isolated self-authenticated context of early Bernadette Corporation and as well how Walczak‘s ‚failed film school re-appropriation of an alternative cinema could only tenuously exist in a version of the downtown 90s scene that doesn‘t appear in any forgotten histories. Wanting nothing to do with whatever remained of East Village punk, no wave, or grunge subculture, it was an aesthetic that also happened outside of single-channel video art, operating under an illusion of a post-cinema that thought it was still possible to sit in darkened movie theaters instead of filling up the white empty spaces of galleries. It‘s worth noting that, in pursuit of such nostalgic resistance, Antek even went as far as moving to Paris to make films, write film criticism, and grow a beard at the start of the 00 decade. The Sad Film Student works fall under the early stages of what would became a full-blown condition at the start of the 21st century — a passion for dead fic- tional substances and authentic forms, a haunted authorial voice speaking across grids of nonlinear layers, tracks, clips and timelines. eai

Thursday, May 31, 8PM

Space Studies 2, 6, 7
Concert starts at 9PM sharp! 
http://rafaeltoral.net/

Rafael Toral plays experimental electronic instruments. Strongly interested in phrasing, he calls his style “post-free jazz electronic music”, once described as “a brand of electronic music far more visceral and emotive than that of his cerebral peers”. Toral’s Space Program, while researching performance possibilities, delivers music that is full of clarity, articulating silence and sound in a thoughtful, yet physical way.

Formerly known for his drone/ ambient work with guitar and electronics and acclaimed records such as Wave Field (1994) or Violence of Discovery and Calm of Acceptance (2000), he has radically renewed his approach to music, launching the jazz-inspired and alien-sounding Space Program in 2004.

Toral’s long time connection with Sei Miguel is central to the development of the Space Program. Other collaborations include Jim O’Rourke, Evan Parker, John Edwards, Joe Morris, Tatsuya Nakatani, Manuel Mota, Roger Turner, David Toop, Alvin Lucier, John Zorn, Phill Niblock, Christian Marclay, Sonic Youth, João Paulo Feliciano, Rhys Chatham, Lee Ranaldo, C Spencer Yeh, Trevor Tremaine, Dean Roberts… In 1998 he became a member of MIMEO electronic orchestra. Its other members are Keith Rowe, Thomas Lehn, Kaffe Matthews, Marcus Schmickler, Jérome Noetinger, Christian Fennesz, Peter Rehberg, Gert-Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler and Phil Durrant. Since 2008 he directs the Space Collective, a slowly developing orchestral group.

Monday, May 28, 7PM
Owen Land, 2009, 133min, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1772813/
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Monday, May 21, 7PM
Jean-Luc Godard, 1985, 95min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089066/
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Monday, May 14, 7PM

• Mimino

Georgiy Daneliya, 1977, 97min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076391/

Georgian bush pilot Mimino (Vakhtang Kikabidze) works at small local airlines, flying helicopters between small villages. But he dreams of piloting large international airlines aircraft, so he decides to go to Moscow to follow his dream. There in a hotel he meets Armenian truck driver Roobik Khachikyan (Frunzik Mkrtchyan) who is given a place in that hotel by mistake instead of another Khachikyan (Professor), and they have a lot of adventures in Moscow.
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Thursday, May 17, 7PM

• Kin Dza! Dza!

Georgiy Daneliya, 1986, 135min http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091341/

The story takes place on the desert planet “Pluke” in the “Kin-dza-dza” galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other (“Uncle Vova”, a gruff construction foreman from Moscow Vladimir Moshkov, and “The Fiddler”, a student from Georgia Gedevan Aleksidze) are stranded due to an accidental encounter with an alien teleportation device. The movie describes their long quest to find a way back home.
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Thursday, May 10, 7PM

GAINAX (Hiroyuki Yamaga), 1987, 119min 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093207/
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The Wings of Honnêamise (王立宇宙軍 オネアミスの翼 Ōritsu Uchūgun: Oneamisu no Tsubasa) is a 1987 Japanese animated science fiction film and the first film produced by Gainax and Bandai Visual. It was directed and written by Hiroyuki Yamaga.

On a far-off planet, a Kingdom tries to launch the planet’s first manned spacecraft. This ten year old project not only faces funding and technical problem, but also is subject to political conspiracy and the neighboring Republic’s aggression. It’s all up to Shiro, the first spaceman to be, his friends and their faith to make the space program a success.

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Tuesday May 1
Doors: 7 PM
Concert: 8 PM 

http://www.sicalps.com/
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