Dear Friends: please join us:
Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 7pm. Free
Featuring Robert Polito & Todd Colby. Films by
Ry-Russo Young, Steven K. Tsuchida & Gabe Ibanez.
Jonathan Shorr Gallery, 109 Crosby St. (off Prince
St.) in SOHO, NYC.
http://www.rattapallax.com/salon_04192007.htm
Robert Polito is the author of Savage Art: A Biography
of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book
Critics Circle Award and an Edgar; Doubles (a book of
poems); and others. He is the editor of the Library of
America volumes Crime Novels: American Noir of the 30s
and 40s and American Noir of the 50s. He is Director
of the Writing Program at The New School.
Todd Colby is the author of Riot in the Charm Factory:
New and Selected Work and more recently, Tremble &
Shine (Soft Skull Press) and the editor of Heights of
the Marvelous: A New York Anthology (St. Martins
Press). He was the lyricist and vocalist for the
now-legendary New York band Drunken Boat.
FILMS:
Maquina. Gabe Ibanez's remarkable urban horror film
giving illusions to the work of Shinya Tsukamoto. A
lonely young girl is surgically fitted with a sexual
contraption that makes her the deadliest instrument to
men. Won top prize at the Potenza International Film
Festival.
Director Ry Russo-Young presents a film-as-art
projection that puts a personalized and distinctly
modern spin on the Hitchcock classic Psycho. Three
separate women play Marion Crane -- now immortalized
by Janet Leigh and a certain shower scene-in three
different scenes. Official selection Tribeca Film
Festival and won Best Experimental Film at 2005
Chicago International Film Festival and 2006 SXSW Film
Festival.
A Ninja Pays Half My Rent follows the story of a young
man who learns to deal with a ninja as a roommate.
Barry's roommate suddenly passes away from eating a
grapefruit. Unable to pay the entire rent for his
apartment, Barry must find a roommate. Mysteriously, a
ninja appears in his apartment and the crazy and
comical story unfolds in Steven K. Tsuchida's short
film. Provided by Filmmovement.com
Co-sponsored with Academia Internacional de Cinema,
Rattapallax, Soft Skull Press, Pampero Rum & Filmmovement.com
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