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Screenings

Confessional Tales and Political Ends
FRIDAY 19 August, 6pm onwards

The Golden Bowl of Repression (Chris Kraus, 1990, 12 mins),
How to Shoot a Crime (Chris Kraus, 1987, 28 mins)
With After School Special (Corin Sworn, 2010, 20 mins) and an exchange between mystery guests

Feelings are shit. The real trick is to disappear
SATURDAY 20 August, 6pm onwards

Gravity & Grace (Chris Kraus, 1996, 90 mins)
With Selected readings from Aliens and Anorexia (Chris Kraus, Semiotext(e), 2000) and a reading by Letitia Calin.

A two-night screening of films and readings by the self-described “failed filmmaker” Chris Kraus, the author of novels such as I Love Dick, Aliens & Anorexia and Torpor, co-editor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader and the founding editor of the Native Agents new fictions series also for Semiotext(e). Her most recent publication Where Art Belongs ‘examines artistic enterprises of the past decade that reclaim the use of lived time as a material in the creation of visual art.’ Originally receiving little to no attention when made, Kraus’ films toy with subjective positions, the intricate interplay of fiction and actuality and the blurring of boundaries between public and private, domination and submission. Programmed by Lucy Pawlak and Patrick Staff, three of these films will be screened alongside accompanying readings and films from artists courting conversations about the performance of the tricky powerplay, cultural dysmorphia and the multi-layered destabilisation also typical of Kraus’ oeuvre.

Plenty 9: Bouvier and Prusakova
Tuesday 26 July, 7 - 8pm
Marya Alford, USA, 2005, 16mm, colour, sound, 25 minutes

A beautiful, simple, and moving film that subtly parallels the lives of Jacqueline Kennedy and Marina Oswald. The narration is drawn from Marina’s testimony to the Warren Commission; visually, the film is composed of shots of pink cherry blossoms against a blue sky.

THE COELACANTH PRESS INVITES YOU TO A FREE SCREENING OF
‘THE FILMS OF SALLY CRUIKSHANK’
Sunday 17 April, 6pm

Sally Cruikshank (born 1949) is an American animator, most famous for her 1975 animation 'Quasi at the Quakadero', a cartoon that follows two ducks, Quasi and Anita, and a robot called Rollo at an amusement park with attractions such as the Tunnel of Youth, Think‐O‐Blink Paints Pictures of Your Thoughts, and Madame Xano and her Fabulous Dream Reader. 'Quasi' was a 'midnight movie' favourite at the time, and as well as being voted as one of the 50 greatest cartoons by members of the animation industry, was selected in 2009 for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress. Her work has featured in many episodes of CTW's Sesame Street and in title sequences for films such as Mannequin (1987). She was the head animator for Snazelle Films in San Franscisco from 1972 to 1981, and in 1986 Cruikshank won the initial Maya Deren Award for Independent Film and Video Artists given by the American Film Institute, along with Stan Brakhage and Nam June Paik. Today she lives in California.

An interview with Sally Cruikshank features in The Coelacanth Journal No. 6 – It Came in the Night.

A Coelacanth Reading List will be distributed at the event and a display of books and other material from the Coelacanth collectio is available to view at the space.