Category: Special Event

AN EVENING WITH PHIL TIPPETT

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AN EVENING WITH PHIL TIPPETT
Screening and Discussion
SATURDAY, MAY 4TH – 8PM & 10PM
Second screening just added at 10PM! ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Over the course of the last 3 short years, Spectacle has played host to a great number of extremely exciting, important, and often rare events that leave keep everyone high-fiving and sometimes shaking their heads in utter disbelief. On May 4th of this year we welcome a man who has undoubtedly shaped the vision of animation, special effects, and filmmaking itself for cinephiles the world over. Phil Tippett will grace our humble theater for a night of shorts, stories, and presentations from his career.

As a young boy Tippett was taken with the effects work of Ray Harryhausen and THE SEVENTH VOYAGE OF SINBAD and over the course of the next 4 decades turned that passion into a jaw-dropping resume. Pioneering stop-motion/go-motion effects techniques on films like the original STAR WARS trilogy, ROBOCOP, DRAGONHEART, JURASSIC PARK, STARSHIP TROOPERS, THE HAUNTING, and more. While earning enough Academy Awards to stock a bandoleer, Tippett also found time to helm his own studio and to take a seat in the directors chair for STARSHIP TROOPERS 2 and countless short films. This barely scratches the surface of the illustrious career of this legendary wizard. Currently, Tippett resides in California and is working on a project called MAD GOD. He’ll be presenting some of that along with a personal history of stop motion animation.

I’M GONNA TAKE YOU HOME: A NIGHT OF SOURCE FAMILY RARITIES

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Dir: The Source Family, 1969-1974.
Approx. 90 min. USA.
Isis and E Aquarian of The Source Family and filmmakers Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos in attendance!
MONDAY, APRIL 29TH – 8PM
JUST ADDED — 10:00 PM SHOW!!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

At the end of the 60s, The Source Restaurant was on everyone’s lips in every sense of the word. With an endless stream of celebrity clientele, good press, good food, and a heady vibe, they were pulling in $10,000 a day at its height. As the business grew, so did the staff.

At its helm was James Baker. Baker was born in Ohio and throughout his life dabbled in everything from a decorated military service to jiujitsu to being a stuntman to alleged bank robberies. After studying under Yogi Bhajan and ultimately settling on taking a higher path, Baker changed his name to Father Yod (and eventually Ya Ho Wha) and gathered his people together in a commune and formed The Source Family- devoted to a lifestyle based on other levels of consciousness through natural living, meditation, art, music, and communal utopia.

Meanwhile, a media circus and climate of fear was surrounding the Family in the wake of the Manson killings as folks were wary of another gaggle of longhairs with weird ideas and freaky jams. But The Source Restaurant flourished, and the Family grew. Following hours of meditation, spontaneous and lengthy jam sessions led to the recording of a purported 65 albums under an umbrella of different monikers and players – Father Yod and the Spirit of ’76 to Ya Ho Wha 13 to The Savage Sons of Ya Ho Wha, Yodship, and Fire Water Air.

As a jump off to a week-long celebration with events throughout the city- including the premiere of the new documentary The Source Family at IFC Center on May 1st- Spectacle is thrilled to welcome the filmmakers Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos as well as Isis and E Aquarian for an evening of rare archival interviews, live performances, deep cuts, cable access appearances, wisdom, and a wealth of stories from the people who actually lived it. Join us for a truly one of a kind evening.

WHERE’S ANTON?

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WHERE’S ANTON
Dir. Joe DeNardo, 2012
22 min. USA.
FRIDAY, MAY 3 – 5:00 PM

WHERE’S ANTON is a movie around Gun Outfit, the band, and the persons individually. WHERES ANTON moves through the band, and the band through it. WHERES ANTON is a musical story, shot on 16mm, blending the shared narratives of document and artifice. The band acts, and the band is itself. Utilizing the writings of Dan Swire, who also plays drums in the band Gun Outfit, WHERES ANTON offers that oft-attempted but rarely achieved unique window into the dream states of collective creativity.

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PLAYING IN DECAY

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Playing in Decay – Abandoned Theaters and the Paris Underground
Slide show and video followed by brief Q&A
THURSDAY MAY 2 – 8:00 PM
ONE NIGHT ONLY

Julia Solis (author of “New York Underground”) talks about her new book “Stages of Decay”, featuring photos of deteriorating theaters across the US and Europe. Lazar Kunstmann & Jon Lackman of the infiltration group Les UX – also known for setting up a secret cinema underneath Paris – will present the “Pantheon User’s Guide”, a video on their secret restoration of the Pantheon clock.

DREAMLAND: THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY DREAM FILMS

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DREAMLAND: THE CONEY ISLAND AMATEUR PSYCHOANALYTIC SOCIETY DREAM FILMS
Presented by Zoe Beloff
USA, Approx. 80 minutes
Silent/English
THURSDAY, MAY 9 – 8:00 and 10:00 PM

In 1926, after returning to New York after World War I, Albert Grass assembled a group of his friends (largely working-class people), all of whom had an interest in Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis, into a society that met in an office on Coney Island to discuss their inner lives. A major project of the secretive Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society, as they were known, was making films of members’ dreams, in the service of understanding the life of the mind.  Years later, with the Society all but an urban legend, multimedia artist and filmmaker Zoe Beloff discovered some mysterious, Freudian 16mm home movies at a flea market, and made it her mission to collect and preserve, as well as understand, the films.

Now, for one night only at Spectacle, Zoe Beloff will present the collected films of the Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society in their original 16mm format. Filmed between 1926 and 1972, the films present the uncovered dreams, fears, and desires of Society members throughout the decades. These nine short films are beautiful, poignant, and surprising by turns, and present the raw, unfiltered inner emotional lives of several generations of Brooklynites.

SLEEP ∞ OVER performs THE HANDS OF ORLAC (IN 3D)

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MONDAY, APRIL 15TH – 8:00PM and 10:00PM
TWO SETS!
ONE NIGHT ONLY!

THE HANDS OF ORLAC (IN 3D)
Dir. Robert Wiene, 1924
An abstract re-rendering by Spectacle’s Jon Dieringer
Music by SLEEP ∞ OVER

Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) is a world famous concert pianst. En route home from being on tour to the waiting arms of his loving wife Yvonne, Orlac is gravely injured in a train wreck that threatens the loss of his titular hands. Yvonne begs Dr. Serral to save them and the good doctor obliges. He replaces Orlac’s ivory ticklers with those of condemned murderer Vasseur. The surgery is a success but Orlac immediately senses something not quite right. When he discovers where his new hands came from he vows never to touch his beautiful wife again. They fall into poverty with Orlac unable to play and Yvonne seeks help from her father-in-law. He is cruel to her an denies her any support. Yvonne returns home and asks Orlac to go speak with his father. When he arrives to see his father, he is dead. Vassuers fingerprints are everywhere and what follows is a harrowing tale of blackmail and murder. Is Orlac the killer? Or are more sinister forces at work?

Four years after working together on THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, director Robert Wiene and Conrad Veidt reunite and set the screen ablaze. Join us for an evening featuring a special anaglyph 3D re-cut from Spectacle’s Jon Dieringer and a live score from Austin’s psych/dream/ether/lo-fi/true-mage pop band SLEEP ∞ OVER as they pass through our fair borough on their most recent tour.

Glasses will be provided.

One night, two sets, three dimensions – not to be missed.

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