DADA & DADAIST CINEMA SERIES with Alex Caldiero - Wednesdays @ 7:00 p.m. (Feb. 13 through Apr. 16) - Room LA 008 (bottom floor of the LA building)
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We are more than pleased to announce that we will be presenting a DaDa/DaDa-ist film series at UVSC every Wednesday night @ 7:00 p.m. in room LA 008. This is an extended activity of the DAda WORKSHOP/CLASS that is currently HAPPENING here at UVSC (Humanities 320R - M, W, F, 1:00 - 1:50 - in room LA 108). We will do our first screening on February 13, with a final screening on April 16th.All in all there will be 9 screenings (observe the schedule below). Each week we will begin each screening with a bona fide DaDA film (each week to be announced/determined) followed by the daDa-IST/daDa-ish film listed on the schedule below. UVSC Professor/Artist-in-Residence/DAD(d)a Alex Caldieroooooooohhhwill be presenting each film in the flesh; helping with appropriate information, background, perspective, and insight into the MinD of each film...as well as facilitating a discussion in-between/after the films. This is an incredible and healthy opportunity to experience and interact with one of the most incredibly creative, vigorous and adolescent periods in film history...and to see where/how it has influenced other films. We will also, perhaps, see dada-ist elements in films not necessarily/really related to the phenomena known as 'Dada' that was rowdily rampant in the early 1900's, who's spirit still lives on (EVen) today. We will, hopefully, (with your help), conjure that spirit. We will also catch a nice glimpse into exactly where we are at, and where we ought to be with the film medium NOWADAYS. Please attend. Please spread the word. DADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADADA... Thank you.SCHEDULE (dates fixed...films tentative):
(DaDa-ist films are listed, DaDa films to be shown beforehand are TBA)
(Click on each film and/or director to investigate/learn more about each film)
(Click on each film and/or director to investigate/learn more about each film)
February 13th - "Germany Dada" (Helmut Herbst)
February 20th - "La Strada", (Federico Fellini)
February 27th - "Modern Times", (Charles Chaplin)
March 5th - "Ordet", (Carl Theodore Dreyer/Kaj Munk)
March 12th - SPRING BREAK...NO SCREENINGS
March 19th - "The Three Stooges", (Selected Episodes)
March 26th - "The Flowers of Saint Francis", (Roberto Rossellini)
April 2nd - "The Blood of a Poet", (Jean Cocteau)
April 9th - "Iron Man", (Shinya Tsukamoto)
April 16th - "Andrei Rublev", (Andrei Tarkovsky)
...The End...
Labels: Dada/Dadaist Cinema, February - April 2008
We had our first screening of the world famous DaDa Cinema Series the other night. The place was packed, and the crowd featured many well-known TV personalities. The DaDa film that we began with was "Le Retour á la raison" ("The Return to Reason"), an incredible experimental, and absolutely reasonable, 2-3 minute short film by Mr. Man Ray (applause ∞). Next came "Deutschland DaDa" ("Germany DaDa") which was made by the infamous Helmut Herbst...(crowd noise)...a very interesting and delightful documentary on DaDa which made a killing in the 60's. Das ist fantastisch! The tight narrative and ingeniously planned plot structure of the film is exactly about the MaM(m)as, the DaD(d)as, their beautiful BaBys/creations and the activity that was happening between all of them in a German melting pot in somewhere around or a little before 1916 or 1915 to maybe 1922 or so... Long live it. The event was highly successful, we all ate delicious desserts afterward, and the final cut that we took at the door was over a thousand dollars (don't tell the UVSC Administration!!!). TO GET YOUR PIECE OF THE PIE: come next Wednesday, Feb. 20th to the UVSC Liberal Arts building room numero 008 (the bottom floor), you won't regret itadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada!
We were more than pleasantly surprised to have a packed house! Gary Coleman's appearance was by far the cherry on top.
The "La Strada" screening of Feb. 20th was highly successful. It was a smaller crowd than we are used to, but the place was still packed. Some idiot brought their cat, and then half way into the film, some other idiot brought their cat too. There was a nasty cat fight in the front of the room between the two cats with the idiot owners and we had to pause the film for about 10 minutes while the cats duked it out. Nobody dared get into the middle of it for fear of being scratched to death. In the end, each cat lost an eye, and the first cat that came in (a Tabby) broke one of her nails. The idiot owners were harshly reprimanded...they both felt bad and then left with their cats for some reason, I'm not sure why...probably to let the cats finish the fight somewhere else, a fight to the death, I'm sure of it. The DaDa film played along with Fellini's "La Strada" was none other than Mr. Man Ray's "Emak-Bakia", what a film...it should have won an Oscar for best screenplay, in fact, I think it did. Several people at the screening said that "it was the best DaDa film we've seen yet", (which puts the film in the running for "Best Film Ever Seen, Ever"). Last Wednesday (our most recent film screening) we screened "Modern Times" starring Charlie Chaplin. Mr. Chaplin himself showed up unexpectedly with a crowd of more than 500 following him. We were very unprepared and so there was standing room only for about 550 people. Charlie gave a wondrous speech immediately afterward, and then we celebrated by taking him out to dinner. He got very drunk and got into a fight with our waiter and so we all got kicked out of the restaurant before we even got our main dishes. The DaDa film shown that night was Captain Viking Eggeling's "Symphonie Diagonale". It put everyone into a trance, nobody really knows what happened exactly, but we all swear it was one of the most amazing 7 minute periods of our lives. See you next Wednesday in room LA 008 @ 7:00 p.m, where we will be watching Dreyer's "Ordet"...and, of course, a classic DaDa film TBA. The event promises to be the most successful screening so far.
Ordet was a wonderful event. At first, due to me being in San Jose, i didn't think i would be able to attend. Fortunately, i was able to astral travel to the screening and enjoy the presence of a small Danish family and one BIG idiot. I mean BIG. Huge. Substantial.
Also, Jesus showed up. Nice event.
Torben is lying. He wasn't to be found anywhere on the astral plane. However, as Torben said..."a small Danish family and one BIG idiot" was actually in attendance. I don't know how he found this out. I'm skeptical...I think he has spies. Anyhow, the big idiot in attendance raised a woman from the dead. It was unlike anything I've ever seen before. A dead women resurrected right before my eyes, out of her casket. I couldn't believe it. I was not a believer, and now I am. How could I deny a holy idiot raising a women from the dead with the help of THE WORD of Jesus Christ? This brought tears to my eyes and I felt the holy spirit. I'm deadadadadadadadada seriousdadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadadada................
You can check out some Dada flyers at dadaandsuch.blogspot.com
Jo (from the Dada Class)