LEO Film Issue
LEO published their first ever issue devoted to film in Louisville. This is a great move forward in establishing a stronger film arts scene locally. Thank you LEO!
If you are interested in reading the email referenced in LEO's article about LFS from Shelby Lee Adams, click here.
LFS 1st Anniversary Show at the Nachbar!
Lurid! Abnormal! Strange! Colorful!
Ripped From the Headlines!
SHOCKING FILMS!
Thursday, June 19th - Sundown
Nachbar, corner of Charles and Krieger in Germantown
$5/Free for members Bring a chair and enjoy 16mm shorts under the stars
KINO Louisville - June 13 to June 15, 2008
Summer Kabaret ’08 – June 13-15th
June 13th – Kick off and secret ingredient reveal at 7:00 PM
Filmmakers pay $5 entry fee and enter free on the night of the screening.
June 15th – Screening of your short films at 7:00 PM
$5 cover at the door for non-directors to screen great films.
Both events will be held at the Mellwood Arts & Entertainment Center at 1860 Mellwood Avenue. Thank you to Scott Scarboro & Scooter Davidson for their hospitality. And, a big shout out to the fine folks of the Louisville Film Society for partnering with us to put on the show!
BYOB or whatev. Bring something to snack on and something to drink. Sit back, relax and enjoy the great films made in the previous 48 hours.
Details, details…
Directors must turn in films by 6:45 PM deadline on Sunday, June 15th
Films must be submitted in DVD format (no more tapes, gang)
Test your DVDs before you arrive to avoid sadness and desperation
Extraordinary Views of the Ordinary World: Classic Films of George Kuchar.
Tuesday, June 17th
7:00 PM, 9:00 PM
Admission: Free & Open to the Public
21C Museum Hotel
700 West Main Street
Louisville, KY 40202
http://www.21cmuseum.org/
George Kuchar (born 31 August 1942, New York City) is an American film director, known for his "low-fi" aesthetic, playful use of no-talent actors, plotless plots, and themeless themes.Beloved by filmmakers such as John Waters, Todd Solondz and Atom Egoyan, George Kuchar has been working with the moving image for nearly half a century producing over 200 films and videos. George has taught film production at The San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) for over thirty years. His former students include Lance Acord (cinematographer of Lost in Translation) Courtney Love, Christopher Coppola, Cory McAbee (director of American Astronaut) Michael Meredith (director of Three Days in the Rain) and Scott Kramer (producer of Full Frontal)
In the 1950s, Kuchar and his twin brother Mike began producing ultra-low-budget underground versions of Hollywood genre films, with names like I Was a Teenage Rumpot and The Devil's Cleavage. These 8mm kitchen-sink masterpieces bore the distinctive marks of what Susan Sontag called "camp," and positioned the Kuchar brothers as the Bronx's answer to the downtown underground filmmaking scene, which quickly adopted the Kuchars as their own—and in the work of Jack Smith, Andy Warhol, and others, showed their influence.
"There is no doubt in my mind that George Kuchar is one of the great artists in the history of the moving image." Gene Youngblood
"In their crude, naïve way, these films embody the anarchistic impulse straining against (and making fun of) the buttoned-down cultural climate of Eisenhower's America and the Hollywood movies that reflected all that bottled-up anxiety." Stephen Holde The New York Times