[Rumori] "Panorama Ephemera" screening

[Rick Prelinger]

Greetings,

I'm going to show "Panorama Ephemera," a feature-length collage film 
I recently finished, at the San Francisco Cinematheque on Sunday, 
June 13 at 7:30 pm.  Please come if you can.

You can read a description, view or download it at 
http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=feature_films&collectionid=panorama_ephemera 
The description also follows at the end of this email.

The screening will take place at California College of Arts, 1111 
Eighth St., San Francisco.  Directions here: 
http://www.cca.edu/cgi-bin/dad?record=directions&dbase=reach

For New Yorkers: I'll be showing it on 9/20 at Anthology Film Archives.

Thanks, hope to see you,

Rick


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PANORAMA EPHEMERA (2004, 89:35 min., color and black and white) is a 
collage of sequences drawn from a wide variety of ephemeral 
(industrial, advertising, educational and amateur) films, touring the 
conflicted landscapes of twentieth-century America. The films' 
often-skewed visions construct an American history filled with horror 
and hope, unreeling in familiar and unexpected ways.

PANORAMA EPHEMERA focuses on familiar and mythical activities and 
images in America (1626-1978). Many creatures and substances that we 
hardly notice because we feel so used to them take center stage, 
including pigs, corn, water, telephones, fire, and rice. At first 
resembling a compilation, it soon reveals itself as a journey through 
the American landscape over time, and the story begins to emerge 
between the sequences.

The film consists of 64 self-contained film sequences ranging from 5 
seconds to 4 minutes in length arranged into a narrative. Unlike many 
films made using archival footage, it's primarily a combination of 
sequences rather than a collage of individual shots.

PANORAMA EPHEMERA is populated by American children, animals, 
farmers, industrial workers, superheroes, pioneers heading West, 
crash test dummies, and many others.

PANORAMA EPHEMERA is released under a Creative Commons
"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike" license, and may be freely 
shown, copied, or distributed according to the terms of this license 
(http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/).


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Rick Prelinger
Prelinger Archives    http://www.prelinger.com
P.O. Box 590622, San Francisco, Calif. 94159-0622 USA
footage at panix.com

Online film collection at Internet Archive: 
http://www.archive.org/movies/prelinger.php