A Clockwork Reduction December 15, 2007

Seattle School and the Northwest Film Forum present

A Clockwork Reduction
Live Filmmaking in Parts

WHERE
the Northwest Film Forum - 1515 12th Ave, on Capitol Hill between Pike and Pine

WHEN
9 PM (8 PM doors), Fri 14 & Sat 15 DEC
Special screening of the finished films with LIVE "DVD commentary" 7 PM, Sun 16 DEC

HOW MUCH
Fri & Sat $15 general / $12 NWFF members
Sunday screening FREE for stub keepers from Fri or Sat - all others standard admission
Advance ticket purchase available online until the day of the show from Brown Paper Tickets or by calling 1-800-838-3006

FEATURING THE KEEN DIRECTORIAL PROWESS OF:
Virginia Bogert - the Emmy award winning President of Women in Film Seattle, with works shown in several film festivals
Sue Corcoran - High end commercial video (Microsoft, Real Networks) and features to include "She's a Dog"
Daniel Gildark - "Cthulhu" with Tori Spelling, a darling at SIFF and the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and several other projects
Christian Palmer - "Forcefields"
Kris Kristensen - Numerous films and projects to include "Inheritance" shown on HBO and "White Face" as seen on HBO & Cinemax
Lynn Shelton - Numerous films and music videos to include "We Go Way Back" Grand Jury Prize at Slamdance

WITH AMAZING TALENTS OF:
Rob Millis - film composer and founder of the legendary Climax Golden Twins
Jacob Stone - producer of the popular Opticlash VJ battles and founder of Punch Drunk Productions
Kris Moon - education director of the Decibel festival and founder of the Laptop Battle

AND THE PERFORMANCE STYLINGS OF:
Danielle Gibeson, Abby Klein, Jesse Robinett, Dustin Kemp, Caitlin Ngo, JD Darton, and more

We think Andy Warhol’s 1965 film “Vinyl” is super. Warhol adapted the Anthony Burgess novel “A Clockwork Orange” a full 6 years before Kubrick’s version. It’s super. So we’ve decided to remake it. But remaking a film is expensive and difficult and time-consuming. And we’re not filmmakers. And we’re not big fans of recorded media. And we’re not fans of singular vision. We like collaboration. We like watching artists who know that their visions will be foiled, agendas blocked, try with enthusiasm anyway. We want to see brilliant people rapidly maneuver around constraints. So we’ve decided to remake “Vinyl”, but actually we’re going to let other artists remake it for us. We will restage the film as a live performance. And at the end of the performance, we will have a finished product that could be called a film. We’re remaking “Vinyl” by breaking it into parts. We’re remaking it by unmaking it. This is how:

In theater A, the “Sound Stage”, the audience will witness film production in action, video cameras capture 6 directors directing 6 factory-esque models cum actors. Without speaking, each director must frantically communicate what they want their assigned actor to do. The directors are passing on direction from the “Studio Head”, who they are hearing in their closed circuit headphones – he’s giving notes and watching “Vinyl” in real time. He may or may not be eating fried chicken.

In theater B, the “Focus Group” the audience interjects in the creative process. There is a projection of the actors in theater A and composers improvise and perform a live score as they watch. Concurrently, the voice of the Studio Head, not heard in theater A, is broadcast for the audience in theater B. A camera with a direct line to the Studio Head roams the audience capturing “feedback” for what the directors should do next.

And from the lobby, the “Screening Room”, the audience can imbibe, deconstruct, and opine about the entire process. The finished video and audio from both theaters are projected onto a translucent screen. A VJ/editor cuts and merges feeds from all cameras to create the finished film, live with soundtrack, all in real time. Simultaneously, all this craziness is webcast on the Seattle School website www.seattleschool.net. The audience can move around freely throughout the whole facility to see different constrained perspectives of the whole filmmaking process – a very weird, Rube Goldberg version of the filmmaking process.

The show ends when Vinyl ends. Everyone is invited to stay after for fresh waffles, a Seattle School tradition, and general drunkenness, a Seattle School compulsion. Yes, there will be Cool Whip.

AND! A special Sunday screening will get you inside the muddy heads of the would be filmmakers. We’ll screen both nights films in both theaters simultaneously and talk over it, just like on the DVDs. So if you’re still scratching your head, come back for the special features, and everything will be made clear.

For more information, check out: www.AClockworkReduction.com

Contact A Clockwork Reduction at chairmanmin@yahoo.com

And check out www.SeattleSchool.net for more artsy schmutz en route to yr thik skulz

Official Website: http://www.aclockworkreduction.com