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SEPTEMBER 25, 2005 PRESS RELEASE: 9/26/2005 CONTACT: Kristie Alshaibi, Program Director: kristie@zfilmfestival.com The 5th Annual Z Film Festival: The Death of Z Saturday, October 15, 2005 @ 9:00 PM Nihilist Records ( http://nihilistrecords.net ) 2255 S. Michigan Ave., 4E Chicago, IL 60616 USA Suggested Donation: $8 Featuring the live music and performance of Boy From Brazil with VJ Sniper - from Berlin, Germany ( http://www.boyfrombrazil.com/ ) And Chicago noise legends Panicsville Why do we call it the "Death of Z?" The five-year-old Z Film Festival is due for a bit of a revamp. We're hiring a few new curators to program small theme-based shows, and giving the annual festival the ax. ZFF5 is the last of its kind. But don't worry, the spirit of Z will live on in these micro-fests, and it will remain a playground for the freaks, the misfits, the rejects, and the criminals struggling against this country's increasingly conservative zeitgeist. In this time when the FBI is assigning agents to a new "anti-obscenity squad," and the administration is finding back-door ways to restrict and chip away at our right of free expression, it is imperative that venues remain open for works that test the limits of acceptability. We maintain our solid anti-censorship stance, and continue to showcase movies that defy and redefine boundaries. We are bringing some new blood into our organization to help us with these goals. Join us for a batch of new movies, and a few of our favorites from past Z Fest programs. High quality movie stills available upon requestPAST PRESS"...not your average anything. Strange, beautiful, grotesque, but obscenely smart... apathy's not on the agenda. - Oakland Urbanview, October 2003 "...patrons are likely to walk away profoundly altered." - Michael Workman, New City, December 12, 2002 "...the last word (letter?) in fringe film and video-making." "Be warned. This is not a festival for the squeamish or artistically inflexible." - John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune, December 7, 2001 PROGRAM #1: THE FIFTH ANNUAL Z FILM FESTIVAL(running time: 45 minutes) 1.) Baby Pepper Carl Russo (San Francisco, CA) 1 min., 20 sec. http://www.ratso.net/babypepper.html In the new world order, it's tough being a cop. Choosing the proper crowd-control technique is tricky for Officer Chott when he finds himself face-to-face with a radical but adorable junior protester. 2.) The Loneliest Little Boy in the World Mike Derenlewski (Detroit, MI) 5 min., 10 sec. http://topqualityrockandroll.com The director's reaction to the loss of a great friend. Score by Frankie and the S.E.M.M. - all audio sources material taken from live Canalis Crux performances. Inspired by and dedicated to Michael O. Petee. 3.) Lix on the Bowl Tossy Timmy (Chicago, IL) 4 min., 20 sec. A sex education film for perverts. 4.) Animation Station Zzalgern0n & the 3 rd graders of Animation Station (Glendale, CA) 2 min., 12 sec. A series of 8-year-olds' Flash animations, arranged into short film form 5.) Germs Christa Conforti (San Francisco, CA) 3 minutes Stop motion animation - a monkey gets sick at the fair and succumbs to the germs. 6.) Alone But Not Lonely Chris Barry 12 min., 30 sec. (Toronto, Ontario) A group of bored men invite an acquaintance back to their shed for some beers... 7.) Loosen the Stool Richard Newton (Hollywood, CA) 2 minutes Sometimes you need a little help from your friends. 8.) Large Gourd Justin Brady Cooper (Chicago, IL) 6 minutes Subject was having a hard day at work... 9.) Auto-Pilot Charles Lum (Brooklyn, NY) 3 minutes A tricky formalist exercise imbedded under the guise of a video diary. 10.) The Hydra Paul Lloyd Sargent (Chicago, IL) 5 minutes Meet Michael Angelo, a mythical, many-headed creature, rocking out like it's the end of the world.
PROGRAM #2: THE BEST OF Z FEST (running time: 65 minutes) Festival Directors Usama and Kristie Alshaibi screen some of their favorite Z Fest selections from the past five years, from the first annual Z Film Festival to Audiophilia to Sleaze Z Fest.
Kristie Alshaibi
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MARCH 14, 2005 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Due to some major restructuring of our organization, the 5 th Annual Z Film Festival dates are being moved once again. Z5 will now take place this Fall. If you have already submitted work for the fest, don't worry! We are still considering your entry for the autumn show! And you may have the opportunity to screen at this, our very last and final annual festival! As always, your entry will also be considered for the Best of Z Fest traveling program! Yes, you read correctly! This is our FINAL Annual Z Film Festival. Our own work as filmmakers is taking up more and more of our time and energy, and thus, we are scaling down the fest. Please note, however, that we will still put on the smaller more intimate shows with themes like Sleaze Z Fest, and Audiophilia. It's only the regular annual fest we are taking out of the schedule in 2006. So, if you wanted to submit work, and missed the deadline, go ahead and send it now! We will be accepting entries until the end of August! And if you send your movies now, we'll also keep you in mind for future screenings! We're looking forward to making the last Annual Z Film festival the best ever! See you in the Fall! Kristie Alshaibi
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| OCTOBER 12, 2004 The
Z Film Festival Presents: Starting at 9:00 PM, DJ Atomly will get you in the mood while you peruse the perverse paintings of Gregory Jacobsen and erotic photography of Fred Burkhart, Piotr Tokarski, and Chris Kellner, exhibited throughout the gallery. Around 9:30 PM the short movies begin (see listing below). This year’s Sleaze Z Fest doubles as a pre-launch party for noisydaughter.com – a web community for “naked fashion and hot noise,” focused on electro music and dramatic new wave style aesthetics. Right after the movies, some of the web site’s (and Chicago’s) hottest models will bare some skin in our half-naked fashion show, while strutting around in original creations by Camilla Ha, Josi Madera (weirdmirror.org), Mary Bigelow, Sara Reinhold, and others. Purchase original apparel and accessories right off their warm bodies! After that we’ll announce the winners of our sleaziest fashion contest! And finally, our friends from Odd Obsession Video will present our 1982 feature Café Flesh (see description below). THE MOVIES: Electrocute
Kill! Kill! Playmates I Touch Myself Queef Lady Paranoid Self-Contained Sick Men Excerpt from
“The Beast” Fools Rush
In Disposer Penis Pump
Instructional Video Hambone Le Toxic Exotic
Erotic Spank O Rama Sexy Work Out
The Naked Nudes
of Bare-ass Creature Island FASHION SHOW CAFE FLESH Visually stunning, theatrical, and witty - 1980s performance art porn at it's finest! The Time... Five Years After the Nuclear War. The Survivors... Post-Nuke Thrill Freaks Lookin' for a Kick. Able to exist, to sense... to feel everything but pleasure. In a world destroyed, survivors break down to those who can and those who can't. 99% are Sex Negatives. Call them erotic casualties. They want to make love, but the mere touch of a person make them violently ill. The rest, the lucky one percent, are Sex Positives, those libidoes escaped unscathed. After the Nuclear Kiss, the positives remain to love, to perform... and the others, well, we Negatives can only watch...can only come...to... Café Flesh. CONTACT INFO: http://www.zfilmfestival.com
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| JULY 14 , 2004
THE
2ND ANNUAL SLEAZE Z FEST (October 2004) Here's your chance to send us your dirtiest, raunchiest, most perverted, sleaze Z shorts! Don't be shy, after last year, nothing shocks us. Define sleaze on your own terms, whether it be suggestive, hardcore, repulsive, pornographic, or just plain graphic. Give it to us! We'll show the best submissions to dripping hordes of moviegoers during our festival of perversity.
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| JUNE 8 , 2004 AUDIOPHILIA
LINE-UP ANNOUNCED
LIVE PERFORMANCES
BY:
MOVIES:
neilneedleman@optonline.net A film noir that is neither film, nor noir. Rather, a playful exploration of narrative- subverting titles and "mood music." The soundtrack comes from a variety of film noir - sliced, diced, rearranged, and run backwards.
N.ew Y.ork
C.asino kylehn@hotmail.com Las Vegas comes to Manhattan. Prepare for debt consolidation. The voices of time square demand consumption.
Lucky info@debratolchinsky.com Lucky feels like he is finally free of everything that has been previously holding him back, including his body. The doctors however see him as a strange case of a man trapped inside industrial plastic and vow to use all the technology at their disposal to reconstruct him. Nominated for a Hollywood Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award.
Facelift aflackett@massart.edu Goofy expressions with beats to brighten your day.
Faces (Tvazhe) piotrszatan@hotmail.com Girls likes girl and she's going for it.
Also Spoke piotrszatan@hotmail.com Love lost, begin lush.
info@debratolchinsky.com "Max" suffers from believing he will embody his ideal self if he both gains and loses limbs, convinced there isn't enough of him and, at the same time, there is way too much. Max is inspired by a condition known as Apotemnophilia, a condition in which people set out to rid themselves of one or more limbs and is a reflection on the relationship between mental illness, physical form, sense of self, social belonging and the proper use of medical technology.
Magic is
Küntmaster: Hold My Scissors monkeyhump@hotmail.com Dominated by blood-thirsty
Maenads, this video elaborates on the theme of obsessive love
Bobby's
Friends tossyt@hotmail.com Strange images and twisted sounds illustrate the obsessive-compulsive underbelly of one young man's doll collection.
Dolly info@debratolchinsky.com Dolly is lost, utterly lost, somehow trapped inside a doll's head. But her doctor coldly analyzes her case along conventional psychological lines, not recognizing the reality of her nightmarish predicament. Nominated for a Hollywood Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Award.
ggathman@comcast.net Random/non-random entities embracing the pitfalls of psychogenic fugues.
Panicsville:
Stabbed in the Face ortmann@nihilistrecords.net A ritualistic mix of live footage, a foot, and orifices
douggpound@hotmail.com "It is loud,
crude psychedelic sludge, with heavily amped and effected guitars slicing
through the swamps of midnight, with vocals buried in tanks of Japanese
laughing gas, and rhythms sliding along like moist candy dropped from
the lips of Alan Vega. "
Lodger:
I Love Death www.lodger.tv How boring can life be?
Introduction
to the Party Dream analogmonkey@hotmail.com Over the past year, Chicago filmmakers Stacey Goldschmidt and Mike Carney have been following "Gil Mantera's Party Dream". GMPD are a two-piece band consisting of two brothers from Ohio. Their live shows have become legendary amongst those in the know and now they have been captured on video for the rest of the world to discover and enjoy.
For more information:
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| MAY 24 , 2004 Z FEST SUMMER
PROGRAMS CONFIRMED
AUDIOPHILIA doors open at 8:00 PM
With music by Live Video Performance
by Cinema of sound from Chicago and beyond. With music videos from PANICSVILLE, MAGIC IS KÜNTMASTER & The Saddam Rap from Baghdad. THIS SHOW IS FREE!! Sponsored by http://www.themodernist.com Deadline for entries for this program is May 30, 2004. Please see our web site for entry form and guidlelines. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Our second Summer showcase has also been confirmed: THE 2ND ANNUAL SLEAZE Z FEST August 14, 2004 @THE HEAVEN GALLERY tickets will be $8 at the door
Deadline for entries for this program is July 2, 2004 Please see our website for submission form and guidelines. http://www.zfilmfestival.com
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| APRIL 10, 2004
AUDIOPHILIA
(June 19, 2004) The sound of video: digital, analog, noise, vibration. Short movies that focus our ear bones, and enter our head primarily through the holes on either side of our skulls. The audible must be a key element in works submitted for this program. Experimental works, unconventional narratives, music videos, and movies that defy categorization are all welcome.
THE
2ND ANNUAL SLEAZE Z FEST (date TBA) Here's your chance to send us your dirtiest, raunchiest, most perverted, sleaze Z shorts! Don't be shy, after last year, nothing shocks us. Define sleaze on your own terms, whether it be suggestive, hardcore, repulsive, pornographic, or just plain graphic. Give it to us! We'll show the best submissions to dripping hordes of moviegoers during the sticky sweaty heat of summer.
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