177
MacDougal Street, New York, New York
Sunday Evening, November 5th, 2000, 8:00-10:30
The Singer/Songwriters' Silent Cinema Circle
Live Performance
by
PRE-WAR YARDSALE, RANDI RUSSO, PATSY GRACE,
KENNY DAVIDSEN & MAJOR MATT MASON, USA.
With visuals selected from the following:
Angels: Tour of the Vultures
(Dizozza, 1976), an expressionist documentary consolidating 16mm film footage
shot in 1976 with footage from a large canister pictured at the beginning of
ATV. Except for the vultures
descending, all film was either exposed by Dizozza and collaborators Jeff
Marino, Louis Filosa, Mark Logan and Edward Dimaio, or taken from the
canister. Jeff inherited the canister
upon the death of his grandfather -- his father’s father. There are three generations of his family in
the film, displayed at a time when he and his high school senior friends stood
at the crossroads to college and the future.
Whether to follow in footsteps of forefathers (i.e., become a third generation
proctologist?) or embark upon a new path?
The Tournament (Risky BBQ) Part of a trilogy about
Baltimore and its annual competitions -- a docu-drama
Sweeney Among The
Nightingales (Marino) A visualization of the T.S. Eliot Poem.
The Ruins (Dizozza/Dimaio, 1971) When, at the age of 13 and 12, Dizozza and Dimaio took Dizozza’s sister, Monica, and her future scientologist friend, Debra, past little league baseball fields onto the unused railroad tracks that lay beyond, they began a battle of wizards that anticipates the British Mysticism of Harry Potter.
The Blair Shit Project (Schurtman) created on a
Sunday afternoon while consuming large amounts 
of
cheap beer. Dave Schurtman and a couple
of his friends were videotaping various Sunday activities when a sudden urge
came over Dave. He grabbed his video
camera and headed to his bathroom. The
rest is history. In terms of the
horror similarity to The Blair Witch Project, if you think moving your bowels
is scary, then you will get the shit scared out of you. (Jaime Piacente)
The Hungry Ghost (Hui) Karen Hui's depiction of the mourning rituals that follow a person's passing in the Chinese Community.
The
Instructional Films (Espinola)
Learn at least one lesson: Your Vote Counts!
In A Kingdom By The Sea (Rokus) Poe’s Annabel Lee, retold by ROKUS!
The Beard (Johnson & Johnson) The yins and the yangs of shaving.
THE BIOS!
Kenny Davidsen appears Fridays at Pegasus
across from the Lighthouse, fulfilling the musical requests of its clientele,
and he may be seen in powerhouse glory at the Sidewalk Café on November 18, 9PM
2000
Edward
Dimaio (Co-Creator,
"The Ruins"), a poet and host of new age events, Edward has married
and relocated to Battleground Indiana.
Peter
Dizozza (Creator
of Angels: Tour of the Vultures and Co Creator of The Ruins) is a
writer/composer courting controversy with his recent expressions of romantic
enlightenment, the musical theatre pieces, Coppelia, Prepare to Meet Your
Maker, and The Last Dodo, completing a trilogy of feminine icons. As singer/songwriter, he entertains at The
Fort at Sidewalk, 94 Ave A, on Tuesday, November 14th at 9:30. The next performance of his Last Dodo, with
sets and costumes by Patricia Grace, is November 18th at the Throne Dance
Theatre, 137 Duane Street.
Stephen
Espinola (The
Instructional Films Of) Solo Singer Songwriter and pianist with The Dan Emery
Mystery Band, Steve is also an instrument maker/musician whose next event is in
that capacity. He will participate in a
healing music ceremony on Friday, November 10, 8 pm at Dawn Buckholz Studio, 55
Bethune Street, Suite 1214a, New York City.
This is a rare performance of powerful trance-inducing music, based on
core principles of shamanic healing rituals.
For more info on this event, call 831-9048
Patsy
Grace Conceptual
artist creating with music, words and visuals; her new album, Name Her Lucky,
produced by Spencer Chakedis, was released on October 28th.
Karen
Huie (Writer
and Director, "The Hungry Ghost") is an actor/writer/dialogue coach
and filmmaker. Film acting credits
include three Walter Hill movies: Crossroads, Another 48 Hours, and co-starring
with Jeff Bridges in Wild Bill. She has
appeared on numerous television shows and onstage was acclaimed as Madame Mao
Tse Tung in The Chairman's Wife. Ms.
Huie was the only writer to receive a television pilot deal without having
prior sit-com writing experience for her play, Songs of Harmony. She has had a number of productions of her
plays and has been focusing more recently on writing screenplays. As a dialogue coach in both English and
Chinese, she has worked with Jackie Chan, Mark Wahlberg, Liv Tyler, Lucy Liu on
films and televisions shows such as Supercop, the Replacement Killers,
Armageddon, The Corruptor, The X-Files and Millennium. She directed Empty Bamboo, Sh-Boom, Sh-Boom,
a documentary about Chinese-American baby boomers growing up in NYC's Chinatown
and has directed for theatre. Columbus
Park was her first directorial effort on a short. It screened at the Chicago Asian American Film Festival and
WorldFest-Houston for which it won a Merit Award for Best Dramatic Short.
Johnson & Johnson (The Beard) Graphic artists make a foray into motion pictures with 8mm
film.
Major
Matt Mason, US.A has a great album, Me, Me, Me, on Fortified Records. He next appears with Nan Turner as
Schwervon during their CD Release Party at the Fort at Sidewalk, November
12th.
Quince
Marcum (Host)
Our mendicant barker.
Jeffrey
Marino (director
of Sweeney Among the Nightingales)
Embarked upon the uncharted path of AV technician and filmmaker.
The music of Prewar Yardsale, the husband and wife team
of Dina Levy and Mike Rechner, consists of the indie-anti-artnoise melodies
that they create at home in their NYC apartment. Mike has been writing and
playing his blown out fuzzbox rigged acoustic guitar for years around New York
at various east village clubs, while Dina has been playing percussion on her
tin cans, buckets, and homemade drums for a whole year, since the band’s
inception. Sunday, November 12th at the
Schwervon CD Release Party, Sidewalk Café, Ave A and E..6th!
Risky
BBQ (Creators
of the Docu-Drama, “The Tournament) do not use their names in the film credits
but rather go by the name, Risky BBQ.
The Tournament is the first part of a trilogy they are making about
Baltimore. The year of its inception was 1995.
Vincent
Rokus (Creator
of "In a Kingdom by the Sea") Currently a composer of trance-inducing
film scores.
Randi Russo (Performance) once went
under the name of Raizel. Anteater Records released a split 7"
single of Raizel's "Niche-less" in 1995, and the song was played on
college radio stations in St. Louis, and even found its way to Australian
airways. Countless of home-recordings
later, Randi Russo moved back to New York and established a name for herself
(under her real name) in the pioneering East Village AntiFolk scene. She plays
out on a regular basis at various downtown Manhattan venues such as CB's 313
Gallery and The Fort at Sidewalk Café. Randi Russo's music and vocal styles
have been frequently compared to Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Tom Verlaine, Sonic
Youth, Cat Power, and Lou Reed. She is currently working in several side
projects, and plans on releasing a CD of her own material early 2001.
David Schurtman (Creator of "The Blair Shit Project") is
currently living in Staten Island, New York, and is the songwriter and
guitarist of the modern day post-punk band The Humans and is also the
songwrighter, singer and composer of the dark new wave act The Thin Crawl.
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