On-Site at Mini Mart City Park | October 23 & 24
6525 Ellis Ave S, Seattle, WA | Doors at 6:30, Screenings at 7 pm | FREE
THURSDAY, OCT 23
Join us for the first of two nights of cinematic horror with a screening of Vampir-Cuadecuc by Pere Portabella, preceded by Peter Tscherkassky’s Outer Space, and Takeshi Murata’s Untitled (Silver).
VAMPIR-CUADECUC (1971, 65 min) is Spanish filmmaker Pere Portabella’s version of Dracula, filmed entirely on the set of Jess Franco’s 1970 film Count Dracula, featuring performances by Christopher Lee, Soledad Miranda and Herbert Lom. Vampir-Cuadecuc mixes making-of footage with an investigation into the figure of the vampire. Both playful and deadly serious, with high-contrast black-and-white cinematography and an electronic soundtrack, “it is a film within a film, a discourse within a discourse, in other words, a ‘bloodsucking film’ of another.” (Portabella)
In UNTITLED (SILVER) (2006, 11 min), Takeshi Murata subjects a snippet of footage from a vintage horror film (Mario Bava’s 1960 Mask of Satan, featuring Barbara Steele) — to his exacting yet almost violent digital manipulations. The seething black and white imagery constantly decomposes and reconstitutes itself, slipping seductively between abstraction and recognition.
OUTER SPACE (1999, 10 min) Reworking footage from Sidney J. Furie’s 1982 supernatural horror film The Entity, where an unseen malevolent spirit violently assaults a woman (Barbara Hershey), Tscherkassky creates a phantasmagoric work where “both the physical space and the surface of the projection begin to splinter, collapse and rupture. Spaces enclose and enfold, the female subject multiplies and shatters across the screen, and the film itself screeches and tears as the sprockets and optical soundtrack violently invade the fictional world.” (Rhys Graham, Senses of Cinema).
Projected from a 16mm print, courtesy of Canyon Cinema
FRIDAY, OCT 24
Join us October 24 for Soundscapes: An evening of sight and sound with TerrorLab and Blutbraüer artists Erik Blood and Corey J. Brewer.
This project is funded in part by a Neighborhood Matching Fund Award from Seattle Department of Neighborhoods
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
In 2020, Erik Blood and Corey J. Brewer uncovered an audio tape recording labeled “Blutbraüer: Fleisch für Wolfsmann 1976” in an ebay lot sale, a lost soundtrack to a film that was abandoned in pre-production. This led them on a long journey to finding the original musicians and with their blessing, releasing it via SFI Recordings. The response to this discovery was immediate and enthusiastic, quickly selling out cassette and vinyl editions.
The enthusiastic response to “Meat For Wolfman” has delighted the surviving members of Blutbraüer and they have entrusted Blood & Brewer as stewards of their recorded archives.
Or perhaps that isn’t the real story at all. There is substantial evidence that Blutbraüer are the alter egos of Erik Blood and Corey J. Brewer, showing their cinematic side. Closer reading of the credits will show that they are accompanied on these recordings by performers Joel Cuplin (Constant Lovers), Coady Willis (Melvins, Murder City Devils), Kareem Karam (The Locust), Hezza Fezza, Alex Westcoat (Pickwick, Dave Bazan), Ishmael Butler (Digable Planets, Shabazz Palaces) & Mastered by Warren Defever (His Name is Alive) at Third Man with artwork by Joe Garber.
ABOUT TERRORLAB
TERRORLAB IS A LIBRARY MUSIC RESOURCE FOR FILMMAKERS.
INSPIRED BY THE BBC RADIOPHONIC WORKSHOP & THE LIBRARY RECORDS OF THE 1960’S & 70’S, TERRORLAB HAS COMPILED AN ASSORTMENT OF GENRE PACKS, SOUNDS & SONGS COMPOSED TO ACCOMPANY GENRE PROJECTS OF ALL VARIETIES AND PRICED TO ACCOMMODATE PRODUCTIONS OF ALL SIZES.
THE LICENSING FOR EVERY COMPOSITION IS INCLUDED IN THE BANDCAMP PURCHASE PRICE. ONCE YOU’VE PURCHASED IT, IT IS YOURS TO USE IN AS MANY PROJECTS AS YOU WISH.
Credits: Seven Locusts in Golden Gowns Dir..and animated by Joe Garber, Notfriends Studio
This grant is proudly supported by the City of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhood.
Join us in celebration of our newest exhibition Haunted, Friday, October 10th
Haunted
Exploring hauntology—the persistent presence of the past within the present—this exhibition embraces cinema as spectral memory, temporal disruption, and the protean meaning of being haunted.
This event will also celebrate two additional new exhibitions — Cable Griffith: Uncanny Twilight and Studio Art Glass at Tacoma Art Museum
Cable Griffith: Uncanny Twilight
Between real/imagined, tangible/ethereal, interior/exterior, or digital/analog, solo exhibition Uncanny Twilight speaks to a mysterious in-between state or place that the paintings seem to straddle.
Studio Art Glass at Tacoma Art Museum
A dynamic new installation featuring visitor favorites alongside recent acquisitions and lesser-seen works chosen from the museum’s Studio Art Glass collection.
