Heaven Gallery

live occult ritual/experimental video/sound performance

A Science Fiction Melodrama directed by Clara Alcott

Kick is a short film by Clara Alcott. A science fiction melodrama, the piece deals with two women who have a psychic connection before they meet. The title "Kick" references a pregnancy in the story as well as the creative instinct or "kick".

Bookended by the images of a feverish dream, Kick is a meditative piece that explores themes of fear, passion and the desire to connect. Although a short piece, the film has the frenzied narrative of the classic woman-centered melodrama. Kick follows the story of Joselyn and Josephine, two women who have grown to fear the technical devices used in everyday life. Aware that technology has become an established part of contemporary relationships, their anxieties have isolated them and their most significant relationship is with their therapist Dr. Griffin. Always shot with a green gel, Dr. Griffin's treatment is possibly sinister. Initially unaware of each other the two women are drawn together. The emotive Joselyn has a reoccurring, terrifying dream featuring Josephine. Eventually the women meet after Dr. Griffin conducts a surreal therapy session with Josephine. Dr. Griffin is either aware of or in control of Joselyn's dream and psychic connection with Josephine. Dr. Griffin is mindful of Joselyn and Josephine's isolation and comes to learn that both women secretly desire to have children. As the women begin a friendship with each other they become confident in themselves and what their body's are capable of.
A visual and sonic experience, Kick utilizes the colors of traditional 1950s technicolor filmmaking along with a contemporary electronic score and experimental sound design. Douglas Sirk, the architect of 1950s Hollywood melodrama created a lush genre to experiment with. Shot on mini-dv, Kick works within as well as customizes the genre for a contemporary story and theme. The set dressing, wardrobe and cinematography comprise a warm and vibrant palate for the setting of the film. To enhance the element of apprehension with machines an electronic sound design runs throughout the film. Composer Marc Riordan's score is a mixture of a classic Hollywood drama score but with touches of horror and science-fiction accents. Todd Carter of the lap top group TV Pow, engineered and mixed the piece as well as provided the sound design. Kick features Sarah Weis as Joselyn, Jeff Norman as Dr. Griffin and Andrew Taylor as Dr. Reynolds.

www.facebook.com/kickthemovie

Kick May 29th, 2010
9pm
$5 suggested donation

Lemonade and Iced Tea will be served.

Silent Films with live piano accompaniment by David Drazin

Five Short Films About Love: 
They Would Elope with Mary Pickford - 1909,
Bunny's Honeymoon with John Bunny - 1914,
Miss Stickie Moufie Kiss with Mr.
and Mrs Sidney Drew - 1914,
Leading Lizzie Astray with Roscoe "Fatty"
Arbuckle - 1914, Be My Wife with Max Linder - 1921.

David's Nitrate - 16mm film by Dave - 5/7/2010. 

Total running time an hour and a half. 

www.kendavies.net/daviddrazin

4:00pm

Shorts Program: Paris and a Middle Eastern Twist: Three US Premieres
Following up on her 2009 Special Jury Prize winner But We Have the Music, Parisian director Shanti Masud presents Ne Me Touche Pas! (2010, 30 min.), a little piece of cinematic and musical bliss in grainy super-8 film. Masud will attend the screening.
President Sarkozy called them racaille—scum—but the underground and mostly immigrant rappers in Emmanuelle Lippe and Bertil Dubach’s film

Rapaille (France, 2009, 29 min.) took the insult and made it their own.

Rapping in Tehran (Iran, 2009, 37 min.) is secret and semi-legal, and many of the performers featured in Hassan Khademi’s short film have been arrested for speaking their minds in rhyme.

6:00pm

Intangible Asset No. 82
Directed by Emma Franz
Feature Documentary
Australia, 2009, 90 min.
Chicago premiere!
Former jazz singer Emma Franz’s debut film follows Australian jazz drummer Simon Barker’s quest to meet an elusive South Korean percussionist, and then finds that this is but the first step on a larger journey of discovery and kickass jam sessions. Part road movie, part spiritual journey, part nail-biting race-against-time, Intangible Asset is a tangible, memorable film experience. “Intriguing…genuinely affecting.” – Joe Leyton, Variety
Also playing: Instant Composers Pool Orchestra – “Steigerpijp” (music video, dir. Barbara Hin and Martin Van der Veen)

8:00pm

Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Directed by Damien Chazelle
Fictional Feature
USA, 2009, 82 min.
Chicago premiere!
Chicagoans finally get a chance to see “the finest indie movie of the past year” (Filmmaker Magazine), a jazzy, improvisational film about love and music. Guy’s a trumpet player who makes the wrong romantic choices when Madeline’s the one he should be with. The film combines gritty 16mm black-and-white near-documentary style with the spirit of a 1930’s musical extravaganza in a constantly surprising mix.
Also playing: Jeff Tain Watts Quartet – “Return of the Jitney Man” (music video, dir. Michael Wilson, Miho Morita, Fumio Tashiro)

$10

http://www.cimmfest.org/

6:00pm

West Coast Theory
Directed by Maxime Giffard and Felix Tissier
Feature Documentary
France, 2009, 66 min.
A FILMER LA MUSIQUE Selection
Snoop Dogg, Xzibit, Too Short, Mike Elizondo, and dozens more hip-hop luminaries open up to an unlikely crew of French documentarians in this addictive outsider’s look at the face of West Coast rap in the new millennium. Centered on Segal, sound engineer for artists like Dr. Dre and Eminem, the film asks how the proliferation of desktop music-creation software will affect the future of hip-hop.
Also showing: Vega Teknique – “Sound to Sound” (music video) and Animate Objects feat. SoulStice – “El Dorado” (music video)

8:00pm

Of Montreal: Family Nouveau
Directed by Spenser Simrill Jr.
Feature Documentary
USA/Canada, 2010, 45 min.
World premiere!
English professor Spenser Simrill isn’t your typical academic: he got to hang out with hipster messiahs Of Montreal on their 2009 European tour, capturing both their bizarre stage antics and their equally bizarre backstage confessionals and pushup competitions. Seriously.
With: “The Cat Piano” (short fiction) Director: Eddie White and Ari Gibson. Narrated by Nick Cave. "Burn the Whole Place Down" (short film) Director: Jordan Wood

$10

http://www.cimmfest.org/

Doug!

TEA PARTY FILM BENEFIT

Benefit for a local short film with a Tea Party Theme
w/ treats screenings & music

Performing:
Coupleskate
Coins (Reds and Blues)
Blue Ribbon Glee Club
Fielded (Festival, Ga'an)
Stacian (Purricane)

Screening:
Lilli Carré
Marie Losier
Sarah Weis & Arturo Cubacub
Jung a woo
Shayna Connelly
Polina Malikin
Clara Alcott
Mary Scherer
Catie Olsen
Laura Klein
Matthew Stenerson & Megan Huber
Catie Olson
Rebecca Kressley
Jack Myers & Karen Shapiro
Shayna Connelly
Marc Mozga, Adam, Clara Alcott
Huong Ngo
Jeff Walker & Audrey Levy
Michelle Harris
Ellen Lake
Amy Caron
The Pretty Things

Saturday June 6th, 6-10pm
$10 suggested donation

People, however small they may be, and their emotions, however insignificant they may seem, could be big on the movie screen.-Fassbinder

Flier Design by E.C. Brown and Andrea Park

contact:
clara@heavengallery.com

Saturday, November 1st
7pm, donation
Heaven Gallery
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave

Video works and performances by:

Ben Driggs
Thomas Macker and Natalia Duncan
Marc Riordan
Frank Van Duerm
Nicholas Wylie

Heaven Screening-Berlin
Heaven in Berlin
At the Babylon-Mitte Cinema
Berlin, Germany
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
8pm

The kleine video tour of Europe continues at the Babylon Cinema in Berlin

The Heaven Europe Tour Premiers Heaven's Brand New DVD with work by:
Matthew Stenerson
Mary Scherer
Jim Finn
TV Sheriff
Eric Fensler
Doug Lussenhop
Shayna Connelly
Nick Bahr
Rebekka Kressley
Bobby Ciraldo
Jon Bollo
Animal Charm
Laura Klein
Eric Henry
Yony Leyser
Catie Olson
Ryan Kortman
Chris Hefner
Lilli Carre

Heaven in Berlin
@ Babylon-Mitte
10.28.08 8pm 6,50 Euro
Rosa-Luxemburg-Str. 30, 10178 Berlin, Germany - 030 2425969
www.babylonberlin.de

Off of the Rosa Luxemburg stop on the U-Bahn, U2 line
*Trivia Question-who was Rosa Luxemberg?

DVDs for sale in NTSC for €20

The Babylon-Mitte is a great cinema in Berlin. They are located in the Mitte neighborhood and the cinema was built in the 1920s. It was used for movies and for cabaret (!) Hopefully the Berliners of Heaven's extended creative family can meet up that night. We are going to the Erdbeer Bar afterward (Strawberry Bar).

Please see the website and Blog for more information
www.heavengallery.com
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clara@heavengallery.com

Heaven in Linz

October 23, 2008
7pm
at the Kunstraum space
Goethestr. 30, 4020 Linz
www.kunstraum.at

Work by:
Matthew Stenerson
Mary Scherer
Jim Finn
TV Sheriff
Eric Fensler
Doug Lussenhop
Shayna Connelly
Nick Bahr
Rebekka Kressley
Bobby Ciraldo
Jon Bollo
Animal Charm
Laura Klein
Eric Henry
Yony Leyser
Catie Olson
Ryan Kortman
CHris Hefner
Lilli Carre

Flyer design and programming assistance by Katherina Lackner

* DVD's will be for sale in the NTSC format for 20 Euro