The San Francisco Film Society brought To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given to town. It’ll be showing at Steven Wolf Fine Arts in the Mission September 15-October 20. Steven’s awesome- I’m really proud of the project in there, too.

Also in SF- I’ll be talking at the SF Art Institute Monday, September 17th at 7:30.

Then I head south of Los Angeles for a few months. I’ll be doing things down there, too. Grand Central Arts Center, Cal State San Marcos, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum- all kinds of things. Way the hell out of the barn.

1) We’re finishing up the work on the Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then performance at EMPAC DVD/blu-ray release! Tomorrow (Friday, August 10th) we’re screening it in Troy- finding out if it’s good. Hopes are high.

2) For a couple weeks- August 17-September 3- EMPAC is showing To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given- the project we developed, designed and built up here.

3) High Tide Picture Show! Todd Chandler and Jeff Stark are hosting a screening/performance night at the Boatel in Far Rockaway. It’s going to be amazing. Films by Jem Cohen, Martha Colburn, Lee Kern and other cool folks. I’m not showing a film- will just be in Martha’s band- but the evening will be unreal.
Saturday, August 11th- 8PM.

4) I’m also doing a short exhibit at Penn State University. It’s a film show. It’ll be good, I believe. August 27-September 14th.

5) More Todd Chandler/Jeff Stark projects: Those two built a drive-in theater with junk-cars and a giant screen for Manchester, UK’s Abandon Normal Devices Festival. We’ll be there doing Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then. It’ll be a weird and great band- Todd Chandler, Jamie Reeder, myself, Micheal McGinley, Lee Kern, Molly Carroll (did you see Lee Kern slyly slipped in there? He’s brilliant. I’m thrilled he’s joining us for this one.)
Info here: Last Chance Picture Show.

I worked and worked on the animation. To Many Men Strange Fates Are Given is rolling up to the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York May 5-June 23.
It’s a sculpture (made with some brilliant RPI/EMPAC folks- Eric Ameres and Ryan Jenkins). Part of the sculpture is a 12-minute hand-drawn animation, roughly about the woman who made the spacesuit for Laika. Sort of. There’s no way to see the film outside of the sculpture, unless you’re standing next to me and I am standing next to my computer. Go to New York! There’s other things there, too. In New York.

EMPAC is starting a DVD/Blu-ray series!!! Of important art performances!!!

As if there needed to be more reasons to love those folks. Jem Cohen’s showing his new We Have An Anchor project up there. The band is incredible- Jim White, Guy Picciotto, members of A Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed You Black Emperor. That thing’s going to be unreal. On April 27th: http://empac.rpi.edu/events/2012/spring/quote/cohen/

I was going to say EMPAC is including the Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then performance in its DVD set, but I kept saying it poorly, so I will say it again better later.

We’re doing Gravity live at Hallwalls in Buffalo. 7PM on March 4th. It’ll be good. http://www.hallwalls.org/media-arts/5213.html

Then, there’s a lecture with live band accompaniment- short films and rantings at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago, March 28 at 6PM: http://www.saic.edu/art_design/vap/index.html#current_series/SLC_38429
It’s a pretty amazing lecture series. Ben Marcus, Sam Lipsyte and Marilyn Minter are right before me. The band for our thing is Jim Becker (Califone, Iron&Wine), Joe Adamik (Califone, Iron&Wine), Michael McGinley (the Bitter Tears, Califone, Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then) and Donna K (Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then).

After the SAIC thing, there’s a couple screenings of Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then- the theatrical version complete with wobbly homemade soundtrack- at the Gene Siskel Center:
Thursday, March 29, 6:00 p.m.
Saturday, March 31, 12:30 p.m.
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/gravity-was-everywhere-back-then