A recently deceased opossum makes his one phone call. Short film includes complete recipe for stuffed opossum.
Author: tv@acreresidency.org
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Psychedelicatessen
ACRE TV is pleased to present:
Psychedelicatessen
September 1 – October 31, 2014
“The number I took took me and spiraling through the pickled kipper and the arugula rugalah, the babka bobbed, and my head went to cheese.”
—Ïørg Malsnitz, Lo Psychedelikateßen
A cornucopia of psychedelia, a delicate spread of the finest things, delicious and heady, sumptuous and somatic. Food films but also film foods. Cooking shows where the food narrates and the chefs are chevre. A mayonnaise malaise, half Erowid and half Martha Stewart, some things you need a half pound of, others much less.
If television delivers the people, ACRE TV delivers the Soylent Green, thinly sliced and mostly eyes and ears and brains. I stream, you stream, we all stream for mustard paintings and ketchup pairings. I’ve never seen the Food Network, but I assume it’s like this. A perfect time to watch weekly shows, to hear field recordings of fields, to tell the whole world about being a waiter for Godot.
Psychedelicatessen includes live performances by John Kilduff, Thad Kellstadt, Leslie Rogers, Ellen Nielsen, Anna Ialeggio, Mark McCloughan, Joseph Herring and Amy Ruddick; episodic shows by Elsewhere, Tara Nelson and Michael Wawzenek; and video works by Alpha Girls (Alma Alloro & Jennifer Chan), Blair Bogin, Jennifer Chan, Jerstin Crosby, Timothy D, Mitchell Dose, Clint Enns, GWC Investigators, Hooliganship, Thad Kellstadt, John Kilduff, Jodie Mack, Jesse Malmed, Hani Moustafa, Ellen Nielsen, Ben Popp, Leslie Rogers, Andrew Rosinski, Ben Russell, Joshua Gen Solondz, Toby Tatum, Michael Wawzenek, Sean Whiteman and The Whiteman Brothers.
Programmed by Kate Bowen, Kera MacKenzie, Jesse Malmed and Andrew Mausert-Mooney, with help from Elsewhere
Poster Design: Kera MacKenzie and Andrew Mausert-Mooney
Sandwich Art: Matt ManciniFull program information HERE
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“Sapphire and Steel” Nightmare City
SAPPHIRE & STEEL
2012
20 YouTube Videos & 1 set of seventeen 12-minute BetaMax Video CassettesSAPPHIRE & STEEL is NIGHTMARE CITY’s remake of an episode of the late 70s/early 80s British sci-fi/fantasy cult show Sapphire and Steel. Looking backwards and forwards through time, the remake layers a range of video technologies and means of reproduction from an analogue 1960s-era broadcast tv camera to the currently ubiquitous YouTube UI to obsolete BetaMax cassettes. The narrative is re-enacted by a group amateur actors who interchangeably represent the titular characters: two inter-dimensional time detectives. NIGHTMARE CITY portrays the remaining two characters simultaneously through a composite identity created in post-production. Layering footage of each of the Nightmares, ill-formed chimeric characters depict quixotic notions and misuse of time, space, technology, spiritualism and the supernatural — all while the re-made footage stutters, struggling to remain in-sync with the original audio track from the show.
Airing:
August 23rd, 12pm-4pm
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“Resonating Harshness” Emerson Sigman
Resonating Harshness is a performance for camera utilizing the body’s relationship to recording equipment. The work explores this tension between maker and material while harnessing frequency as a means of affect.Airing:
August 16, 2014, 10pm
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“Accumulated Body” E. Aaron Ross
“Accumulated Body is a collection of videos from my father’s childhood growing up in Texas, narrated by my father. Originally shot on film during the idealized golden age of America, the film has since been converted to VHS with the originals discarded. This footage is combined with documentary video of the destruction of my personal documents from birth to my 25th birthday, for the purpose of turning the recycled paper into a sculpture for burning. Accumulated Body is about cyclical parallels, losing a sense of the present, and the inevitable degradation of history by the stream time.” -E.AR
Airing:
July 13, 2014, 12-12:30pm
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“Runnel” Joseph Herring
Runnel is a live-stream broadcast from a network of tunnels built in the artist’s studio. Set in the post-human future, the tunneling system for (highly evolved) small mammals provides underground links to above ground nurseries for telekinetic yucca plants. The mammals are tasked with caring for the plants as they build out a culture from pre-apocalyptic human detritus. Factions of mustelids organize based not on species but on material relationships (freegans [made from cardboard] vs. furries) will create and resolve conflict. The video will slip among perspectives towards narrative, exploring tropes from the history of cinema and television including task oriented documentation resembling sports coverage; POV pans and tracks over and around the set; explorations of the relationship between architectural form and the screen; and experimentation with the illusory nature of the traditional form. Task will include the constant flow of mustelids and of detritus through the space, costuming the actors for participation, covering a costumed weasels in comic books and magazine pages in the weasel tattoo parlor, wallpapering weasel apartments, and other daily activities in the life of evolved mustelids. Runnel slips between an examination of the space of the action, the document of the making of the narrative/proscenium television program, and the narrative program itself.
Airing LIVE:
July 19, 26, 7-7:30pm
August 2, 9, 7-7:30pm
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“45 Minutes of Nothing” Stacy Asher
still from 45 Minutes of Nothing
Repeat airing of 45 Minutes of Nothing at a certain hour for 32 days consecutively, totaling 24 hours of nothing.
The collapse of the dot-com bubble that took place during 1999–2001 left many billboards in San Francisco blank with only a, bright, white rectangle present. I documented blank billboards throughout the city to celebrate the absence of commercial messaging.
Documenting the world going on happily around the billboard’s blank message captured nothing of particular interest but allowed me to enjoy a pause, a focused meditative state. This blank billboard was documented in an increment of 45 minutes, the duration of a television episode without com- mercial messaging.
Today, San Francisco is thriving and experiencing another boom in the tech industry. The value
of real estate and space is at an all time high and it is unique to see a blank billboard. Tune into “45 minutes of nothing”, and find a wonderful time to pause for reflection and a break from visual form and an opportunity to focus on nothing.Airing as part of These Streams Shorts Program:
Daily July 17-August 17, 7-10pm
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“Alien Hour” Adrian Pijoan
Dr. Howard Lafayette, paranormal researcher, has a PhD in veterinary medicine as well as PhD level astrophysics coursework at Walden University. Through his extensive travels across the American Southwest as well as attendance at Bigfoot and UFO research conferences, Howard has gained knowledge and exclusive information about UFO research and the Bigfoot paranormal connection. He brings his own spiritual beliefs trained by his study of judo to his research and hopes to lead you gently into worlds seen by few as we approach the moment of full disclosure.
Airing:
Saturdays at 3am (July 13, 27, August 10, 24, 2014)
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“Phytovision – Live!” Lindsey French
Phytovision – Live! is a live series of television for plants. Reversing the logic of EagleCams, Phytovision – Live! broadcasts the dramatic growth of a small cast into planthood. Plants across the land can tune in as a small cast of native onions and herbs emerge as seedlings into the sunlit studios at the ACRE TV station, growing into complex organisms sharing soil and sunspace, negotiating the trials of tearful pruning, and the tender moments and difficult decisions of flowering and fruiting. Broadcasts will be tailored specifically for plant perception.*
*Scientific studies indicate that plants can sense light and shadow, and the colors red and blue. (Chamovitz, 2013)
Airing LIVE:
July 6, 13, 20, 27, 4-7pm
August 3, 10, 17, 24, 31, 4-7pm
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“You’re watching: The Walking Dead” Brendan Meara
You’re watching: The Walking Dead
production stillYou’re watching: The Walking Dead is a dystopian drama that unfolds within the confines of a broadcast monitor, that is connected to a broadcasting computer, and streaming live to your device. Within this world within worlds, a band of survivors pull together to find safety in a vacuum and decapitate boredom.
Airing:
Episode 1: Premiere, July 5, 1:00pm – 5:08pm (4hrs 50min)
Episode 2: Date TBA, (9hrs 35min)
Episode 3: Date TBA, (11hrs 28min)
