Joel Schlemowitz – a Film Premiere

A program of films that straddle the experimental film and the documentary. A new film by Joel Schlemowitz will also have its premiere.
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The program will include a film about UDP:

Loudmouth Collective / Ugly Duckling Presse (2003), 16mm, b&w, sound, 20 min.

A film-portrait of the Loudmouth Collective and Ugly Duckling Presse. These poet-provocateurs are the creators of the infamous “Anti-Reading” series, a carnival-like alternative to the traditional poetry reading. On the film’s soundtrack we hear how the Anti-Readings were started, descriptions of various Anti-Reading activities including the Poetry Fishing Pond, the Typewriter Inferno, Poetry-Poker, Poem Portraits, the smokable poems known as Poetry Cigarettes, the memory tester called “I Forgot,” and the Diary in the shape of a Bunny. The film includes footage shot at Anti-Readings, with time-lapse, double exposures, distorting lenses, and frenetic non-traditional camerawork evocative of the playfully chaotic spirit of the events.

The filmmaker will be present for discussion after the screening.
Suggested donation $7.