Total Mobile Home microCINEMA with Rebecca Barten and David Sherman

Rebecca Barten and David Sherman, experimental filmmakers and accidental neologists, coined the term “microcinema" in 1994 in order to re-imagine what a film exhibition space could be. Barten/Sherman join us in-person to present a new, live cine-essay about their influential DIY exhibition space, Total Mobile Home microCINEMA and the extraordinary experimental cinema culture that exploded in 1990’s San Francisco. Mapping a moment in underground cinema that began in an illegal basement space using scavenged technologies to cultivate an intimate immensity of makers and audience, the presentation offers a historically singular window into the structure of their curatorial investigations and small gauge activism! From the historical avant-garde to late century transgressive moving image practices, the cine-essay synthesizes video documentation, curated films, writings, ephemera and live expository interludes about and through the Total Mobile Home lens.

The program includes an exploration of  the TMH archives of events, including restored video documentation of film performances by Luther Price (Clown 2: Scary Transformations) and Stuart Sherman (A Christmas Spectacle), salons with Bruce Baillie, Sidney Peterson and George Kuchar's video TMH portrait, Cellar Sinema. Also, a  re-examination of the 1994 TMH Home Mail Project that included the photographic participation of Robert Frank, Carolee Schneemann and Rudy Burckhardt. Weaving through the evening, are recent annotated oral histories from Brian Frye, Steve Anker, Mark Street, Jeffrey Skoller and other contemporaries . FIlms by TMH artists, including Harun Farocki, Guy Sherwin, Emily Richardson, Lynne Sachs, Scott Stark and more.

At Eberle Studios
229 East 9th Avenue, Homestead, PA 15120

Doors at 7:30, film at 8:00

Tickets $12, but Pittsburgh Sound + Image members get in for FREE!

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