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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Erika's Monkey Town Mixer August 5th 7:30-10 pm

For The Rest Of Your Natural Life Productions presents:
The Absurd, The Dark, The Melodramatic
Summer Video Mixer August 5th 2008 8-10 pm
Free!

Monkey Town HQ
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe) Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Seating is limited so make reservations here:
monkeytownhq.com reservations

I hope you will join me to see my latest video projects along with some of my favorite short films by other artists.
Screening takes place in Monkey Town's 4 wall video projection and dining room.
The line up and times are listed below. Hope you can swing by for dinner - drinks and some marvelous summer entertainment........
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Video Menu
Doors Open 7:30 Screening 8 pm

Appetizer:
Erika Yeomans:
Paging Dr. Freud
(4 frame video, 18 mins., 2007)
A montage of archival footage and source materials of
Yeomans' performance art group Doorika-a quasi art-docudrama.
Featuring Casey Spooner, Marianne Potje, Bobby Conn, Ford Wright,
Magica Bottari among many others. Sources include Bambi, 42nd Street,
Cruel Story of Youth, In The Realm of the Senses, Suddenly Last
Summer, The Bad and the Beautiful among others.

Main Entrees:
Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears the Musical!
(Music Video, 8 mins., 2008)
In collaboration with novelist and Mc Sweeney's contributor Ben Greenman
Featuring Simone Butler, Michael Abbott, Jr,, Ben Greenman, Mot
Filipowski, Juile Strong, Steven Jean Baptiste

Boo! (Horror/Suspense, 4 mins., 2008)
A suspenseful video haiku of horror and gallows humor; where a YOUNG
MAN gets ROPED in by a CAT LADY
Featuring Jenny Bass, Cosmo Pfeil

Michael Medaglia's Foot Fetish
(2.5 mins, Super 8, 1997)
It's not just about the feet.

Ry Russo Young's Marion (6 mins, 2005)
A deconstruction of the Jason Leigh character from Psycho.

William Lamson videos:
Action Videos: 1,3,6,7,8,10
Sublunar Falling
Monument Valley Flight
Crash

Brent Hoff / Wholphin's Bees
(7mins, Original Wholphin short)
A humorous look at the life of drunk bees.

Jared Larson's Fifty States
(montage, 3 minutes, Benten )
35mm slides edited to Jared's father's memories of his three year road
trip in the late 1970s.

Desserts

Erika Yeomans' Grand Gorge: No God But Me
(Western, 12 mins., 2008)
A darkly humorous look at the western genre; where white men seek revenge and redemption.
Featuring Michael Abbott, Jr, Mot Filipowski, Cosmo Pfeil, Tom Gorman,
Julie Strong

Christine Giorgio's The Bitter End (18 mins, 16 mm, 2008)
A Bunuelesque short about a group of friends who set sail for a day
trip only to mysteriously disappear one by one. A film that plays with
the thrill of peril and the evolution of a friendship while adrift at
sea. (SNEAK PEEK)

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Friday, July 11, 2008

Boo! Screens At Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum

BOO!
(HD, 4 minutes, 2008)
A suspenseful video haiku of horror and gallows humor;
where a YOUNG MAN gets ROPED in by a CAT LADY.

Featuring: Cosmo Pfeil and Jenny Bass
Directed/Written by Erika Yeomans
Produced Christine Giorgio
Edited by Sandra Montiel
Cinematography by Peter G. Howell

The project continues along a similar thematic journey with writer/director ERIKA YEOMANS' other short genre inspired films and videos (Paging Dr. Freud, Chubby Buddy, The Forgery and In Search of Bas Jan's Miraculous). All tend to blend irony, pathos and humor equally.

SAT. JUL. 26, 9-11 PM
POPCORN! Short Film and Video Festival
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
Bring a lawn chair or blanket and join us at Samy’s Camera for an outdoor screening of short films and videos ranging from animation and drama to comedy and documentaries. Refreshments will be sold. Samy’s Camera is located at 614 Chapala St. $5 CAF Members/ $10 General Admission

Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Pose Down Screens Detroit June 20th 2008

2008 Planet Ant Film & Video Festival
The sixth annual Planet Ant Film & Video Festival
"Detroit's independent film festival"
June 18 - 21, 2008
at Planet Ant Theatre
2357 Caniff
Hamtramck MI 48212

Four nights of indie films from Michigan and around the world.
Comedies - Dramas - Animation - Documentaries - Music Videos
click on SCHEDULE above for details


2008 FESTIVAL SOCIAL
mix and mingle with fellow filmmakers
Park Bar
2040 Park Ave. Detroit
Thursday, June 19 -no cover charge!
10pm indie music videos from Detroit & the world

6:00 PM Fri, Jun 20
Planet Ant Theatre

Friday, May 16, 2008

Monkey Town HQ -Save the Date - August 5th 2008

Screening some of my newest videos (Paging Dr. Freud, Boo!, Fragments from Death Comes for Britney Spears! the Musical and Grand Gorge {sneak peek}) at Monkey Town HQ in Williamsburg. Along with my shorts, I am also programming some of my favorite videos I've recently seen. A fun summer mixer! Save the date!!!

More details in July.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

FLORIDA PREMIERE POSE DOWN (2007, 90 mins)

POSE DOWN (90 mins, feature film, 2007)
Featuring Kristin DiSpaltro (Margarita Happy Hour), Mot Filipowski (Chubby Buddy), Adam Nee (The Last Romantic), Cosmo Pfeil (Descent), Kathryn Rossetter (Whatever), Brian Slaten (The Tourist) and Rich Sommer (Mad Men)

Florida Premiere - Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival 2007, Sunday Nov 4th 7pm and Monday Nov 5th pm. at the Miniaci Theatre for the Performing

Monday, August 06, 2007

Paging Dr. Freud (17 mins, 2007)

Paging Dr. Freud screens at the Portobello Film Festival, London August 13th 6 pm. www.portobellofilmfestival.com


Paging Dr. Freud (2007, multi-frame video & installation project, 17 minutes)
Comprised of archival materials from my tenure as Artistic Director of the experimental theater group Doorika, Paging Dr. Freud is a multi-frame montage based on image, music and sound bites pulled from various media elements from Doorika performances (1990-1999). It is not intended as a documentary of the theater's history, but rather a new artwork made from elements of past work combined with the theater’s research source materials such as film clips from Suddenly Last Summer, Cruel Story of Youth and the 35 mm Doorika film Hard Head Flair. As a dense montage - it creates a funny meta-narrative about the process of collaborative art-making.

Featuring Casey Spooner (FischerSpooner) Ford Wright, Bobby Conn, Jon Langford (Mekons), Amy Galper, Bryn Magnus (Curious Theater Branch) and Marianne Potje. Edited by Christine Giorgio.

Screenings : Portobello Film Festival : London : August 13th - 14th

POSE DOWN feature and new short experimental video PAGING DR FREUD are both screening at London's Portobello Film Festival August 13th & 14th.

August 13th, 7:00 pm
Paging Dr. Freud (17 mins, 2007)
Featuring Casey Spoooner * Ford Wright * Mot Filipowski * Bobby Conn * Bryn Magnus * Marianne Potje among many others.
Music tracks by Jon Langford of the Mekons, Pierre Foldes and Misty Roses!
Video mashup of archival materials from Doorika.

August 14th, 7:00 pm
Pose Down (90 mins, 2007)
http://www.myspace.com/posedownthemovie

Tell your UK mates to step out!
Check schedule/theater at www.portobellofilmfestival.com.
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