Oral Action at Studio 27
An Evening of Avant-Garde Film and Video

February 23rd at 9 p.m.

Studio 27
689 Bryant Street (at 5th Street)
San Francisco
www.studio27.org

Studio 27 presents an evening of avant-garde films and videos that focus on orality. Many of these works expand our everyday understanding of orality through an exploration of: speaking/singing, the spoken/the written, consumption/expulsion, the mouth as liminal zone between outside and inside, aurality/orality, the relation of the mouth to other parts of the body, fetishes and fantasies, oral antics, and the mouth as an organ of eating, communication, expressive performance, and erogenous zone of pleasure. Some of the work points to the utopian potential of becoming orally active, expanding our understanding of communication and connectivity.

Films and videos by: Michelle Beck, David Blatherwick, Asil Bothun, Jorge Calvo, Andreas Gedin, Melissa Grey, Anne Haydock, Guri Guri Henriksen, Kerri Kieser, Ane Lan, Isabelle Mairiaux, Markuz Saito, Tom Sherman, Gruppo Sinestetico

Admission is free!

440 hz
by Michele Beck & Jorge Calvo, 2002, 3 min., video, USA/Costa Rica

Delivery
by David Blatherwick, 2004, 4 min., video, Canada

From the Homefront
by Asil Bothun, 2003, 3 min., video, Norway

So far, so good
by Andreas Gedin, 2002, 4 min., video, Sweeden

Self Portrait
by Melissa Grey, 2005, 4 min., video, USA

eaten
by Anne Haydock, 2006, 6 min., film/video, USA

intimate, delicious, disgusting
by Guri Guri Henriksen, 2003, 6 min., video, Norway

Do You Have a Name?
by Kerri Kieser, 11 min., video, USA

Ane Lan
by Ane Lan, 2001, 3 min., video, Norway

Hollywood beheaded in Ainu's land
by Isabelle Mairiaux, 2006, 12 min., video, Japan

At Your Service
Conversation Pieces In Urban Kyoto
by Markuz Wernli Saito, 2006, 11 min., video, Japan

Talking to Nature
by Tom Sherman, 2004, 3 min., video, USA

Fly
by Gruppo Sinestetico, 2004, 1 min., video, Italy


Total running time: 1 hour, 11 minutes