I Am Curious Remix

As part of Aurora Picture Show's Media Archaeology festival, PBL will go to the Heights Theater in Houston this Friday, September 17th to reminisce about arsons past with a live cinema performance. You could think of it as a seance for a controversial movie, or a Citizen Kane-like post mortem examination of a puzzling reaction. What was this film, why did it draw fire, and did it deserve it?

In June of 1969, arsonists set fire to Houston's Heights Theater during a run of the controversial film "I am Curious (Yellow)," by Swedish writer/director, Vilgot Sjöman.  Live cinema artists Potter-Belmar Labs will investigate this history within the context of late-60s Houston, taking into account the broader censorship movement of the age as well as the phenomenon of reactionary violence in our own time.  Potter-Belmar's live cinema performance will center on a remix of Sjoman’s film, exploiting the kaleidoscope shape of the film in their performance. Mature content warning.

Friday, September 17, 8PM
Location: Heights Theater, 339 W. 19^th Street
FREE Admission

47th Ann Arbor Film Festival!

Leslie is in Ann Arbor this week with her students at the film festival.  If you are anywhere in the vicinity, check out her installation in the lobby:

Vantagepoints: Mapping the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival

(2009) 45 min, looping

media: Google Earth 4.2, 1.77GHz PowerPC G4 with 2 GB SDRAMM, 100 Mb/s Ethernet, 4x 2.5 GHz PowerPC G5 with 4GB SDRAMM, Final Cut Pro 5.1

Here, the works in the 47th Ann Arbor Film Festival competition are globally sited predominantly by zip code but sometimes by city or even country name. A hand-drawn map with pushpins denoting filmmakers' hometowns used to grace the Michigan Theater Lobby at film festival time. That map was the main inspiration for this video, which is essentially the same thing created using the media of our time.

Also, be sure to see vjFutureWorkerGirl performing with DJ Bob Moir on Saturday night at the Cavern Club.

Manipulated Images in Santa Fe

Alysse Stepanian launches a monthly series at the Complex in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to feature artists that explore the innovative use of technology and software to manipulate image.
The initial program on Friday, February 27 will feature artists and videos by Ethan Bach, Anne Farrell, Merrill Kazanjian, Leslie Raymond & Jason Jay Stevens (Potter-Belmar), and Flame Schon. Admission is free and the event coincides with Frito Friday, an opportunity to socialize at the complex, located at 632 Agua Fria, in Santa Fe.

Honorable Mention at Fargo Film Festival

The new Potter-Belmar Labs short, Double Thunder, has won honorable mention at this year's Fargo Film Festival, where it will premier. The Festival takes place March 3 through 7th, at the historic Fargo Theater and other locations in and around Fargo and Moorhead, North Dakota.

Antimatter Film Festival

Potter-Belmar Labs performs Fortune this Friday, September 26, at the prestigious and positronic Antimatter Film Festival in beautiful Victoria, B.C.. 9pm at the Open Space Arts Centre, on 510 Fort St..
More information on the Festival's webpage, including the schedule which includes ten days of solid, top quality programming.

Bearded Child in Minneapolis

Ann Arbor Film Festival

Leslie will be in Ann Arbor this week, attending the 46th Ann Arbor Film Festival.
The Potter-Belmar Labs short, Pandora's Bike, was selected and will be shown in the 9 p.m. screening Wednesday night, the 26th of March.
The Ann Arbor Film Festival is the oldest and most venerable festival in America showcasing experimental and independent films. It is always an event and a spectacle. If you're in the area, and you want to witness some incredible art, there is no better opportunity.

LOOP Barcelona

video festival and fair

PBL's "Pandora's Bike" screened at Mau Mau
in the program
Numinous Inscriptions: Art Video from San Antonio TX
Thursday May 31, 2007

Reel Shorts

"Pandora's Bike" is showing through April in Saratoga Springs, NY at The Arts Center. They have a permanent gallery for video art and short film since 2005. Reel Shorts is a new, juried exhibition program presented by Saratoga County The Arts Council and The Arts Center.