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  • Matt 8:30 am on December 9, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    Emmit-Nershi Band at The Picador this Friday!!! 

    If you are a fan of bluegrass, the Emmit-Nershi Band is a must see.  These guys have been playing great music for many years, and they are continuing that tradition with The Emmit-Nershi Band this Friday at the Picador.  Frontmen Bill Nershi and Drew Emmit both have played stadiums and festivals across the country for quite awhile.  Nershi played in the now dismembered String Cheese Incident, a band known for extensive improvisational jams in genres ranging from bluegrass to funk.  Emmit was a mandolin player for Leftover Salmon, another band known for their unique country/bluegrass sound.  Here is the best video I could find on the Emmit-Nershi Band on Youtube.  Notice at about 3:30 into the video, Nershi appears to be wearing an Englert Theater t-shirt!

    Tickets are ONLY $12, which is totally worth it to see a band with musicians that have played to capacity at some of the biggest venues across the country.  I would easily pay twice that to see this talented band.  Doors open at 9 p.m. and the show is for those 19 and up.

     

  • Matt 2:20 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    UI student films to screen tonight at IMU 

    I have to say that the amount of film related events going on in Iowa City lately really makes me happy.  They are great opportunities to network and check out what other people are working on.  Tonight at 9 p.m. in the Black Box Theater of the IMU, UI student films will be screened for free to anyone interested in attending.

    A total of 5 films, all ranging from 1 to 15 minutes, will be screened tonight.  I noticed I have had a few classes with some of the directors involved with the films being screened tonight.  One of the directors, Joe Clarke, was in my non-fiction video production class last spring.  He recently made a video about the experience that is Kinnick Stadium on Saturdays.


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    • Jen 3:55 pm on November 19, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I like that first video – it made me appreciate Hawkeye football a little more. :)

  • Matt 9:30 am on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    “King Corn” Producer to speak at IC Public Library on Thursday 11/19 

    king-corn(1)A little while ago, I watched a documentary about two filmmakers who moved to Green, Iowa and planted an acre of corn. The film follows Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis as they go about raising their crop and following their harvest into our food supply.

    There are similar themes in King Corn as there are in other eco-documentaries like Food Inc. and FRESH. If you watch the film and are familiar with Iowa City, you will notice that some of the footage in the film is shot on the Pentacrest. Check out the Extended clip from PBS Independent Lens.

    Ian Cheney, the film’s writer and co-producer, will be at the Iowa City Public Library this Thursday for a screening of the film and a lecture. The event is FREE to the public and New Pioneer Co-op will provide free refreshments. The event starts at 7 p.m.

     

    • April Jo Harder 2:07 pm on November 17, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      This event is co-sponsored by by ECO Iowa City. For more environmental-themed events in Iowa City, visit icpl.org/eco-iowa-city!!

  • Matt 11:31 am on November 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Reefer Madness in Iowa City 

    “Reefer Madness: The Musical” will start tonight at the E.C. Mabie Theatre in theReefer_Madness UI theatre building.  The musical is based on the educational film Reefer Madness, released in 1936, in which two teenage boys become addicted to marijuana.

    The $100,000 film, financed by a church group and produced under the title “Tell Your Children,” follows Jimmy Lane, a college student who is mistakenly handed a ‘marihuana’ cigarette  instead of a cigarette filled with tobacco.  What follows is a story filled with murder, rape, hallucinations, beatings, jazz music, and a lot of mistaking joints for cigarettes.

    According to University News Services, the play is a “raucous musical comedy that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the hysteria caused when clean-cut kids fall prey to marijuana, leading them on a hysterical downward spiral filled with evil jazz music, sex and violence.”
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  • Matt 10:31 am on October 30, 2009 Permalink | Reply  

    Experimental Filmmaker Bill Morrison 

    morrison_poster2On Thursday, Bill Morrison will be on campus for a screening of his films.  Here is some information on Mr. Morrison that I got in an e-mail from one of my professors.

    Bill Morrison is a Chicago-born New York based experimental filmmaker renowned for his pioneering reinvention of the found footage collage film and his creative collaborations with composers.  Morrison is most known for his multilayered audiovisual artworks, such as Decasia (2002), which reuses decaying nitrate film as the basis for an aesthetic and philosophical exploration of the medium’s material and immaterial associations with life and death. J. Hoberman of the Village Voice described Decasia as “the most widely acclaimed American avant-garde film of the fin-de-siècle,” while the director Errol Morris commented while viewing Decasia that “This may be the greatest movie ever made.” While Decasia has found a popular second life on DVD, most of Morrison’s films were originally screened as collaborative dimensions of theatrical performances including live music. His works expand the film viewing experience to a multisensorial engagement that blurs boundaries between film and the other arts, sight and sound, memory and history. Morrison will be screening for us a program of his recent work that continues his interest in recreating the parameters of ‘archival film.

    He will be at UIowa on November 5, at 7 p.m. in 101 BCSB.

    I found some of Morrison’s work on youtube, and the first thing I thought was, “how in the hell did he do that?”  Take a look.

    I think that experimental films get overlooked quite easily.  The ones that are done well, to me, are the ones that use the medium to ask questions about the world.  I think it is hard to understand that these films are also a sort of documentary.  For Morrison, his films are made with found footage, or film that he did not shoot himself.

     

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