[Expo] SF Int'l Film Festival screening, speaker, tickets

[Expo for the Artist & Musician]

Expo for the Artist & Musician wants you to know about three unusual 
events coming up at the 50th San Francisco International Film 
Festival:

  * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- April 27
    A live multimedia performance and mashup of particle
    physics, philosophy and poetry.

  * "MURCH" -- April 29
    A documentary on film editor Walter Murch ("Apocalypse Now" and
    many others). Murch himself will be in attendance!

  * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation & Live Music"
    Featuring members of Jet Black Crayon, Xiu Xiu,
    Good for Cows and other local-music savants.


WIN TICKETS to one of these screenings at the end of this email.

Thanks for your support of independent culture and community!

-- Expo for the Artist & Musician

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The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival
April 26-May 10

Tickets and details: http://fest07.sffs.org/


  * "ARROWS OF TIME" -- World Premiere
    Directed and performed by Ken McMullen
    Friday, April 27, SFMOMA, 6:30 pm (also 4/29 at McBean Theater)

    Imagine a film featuring French philosopher Jacques Derrida,
    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center physicists, German artist
    Joseph Beuys, a crime spree flashing forward from 1971 to 2006,
    and reconstructions of poems by John Milton, Jorge Luis Borges
    and Fernando Passoa as performed by leading actors such as
    "Henry and June"'s Maria de Medeiros.

    Now imagine all these elements as part of a live multimedia
    performance, edited in real-time into a mind-boggling mix-and-
    match of content and form. Director and artist Ken McMullen has
    amassed an impressive array of documentary footage of artists,
    philosophers and scientists to create an elaborate timeline of
    ideas, images and sounds that contrasts new discoveries in
    high-energy physics with other distinct yet overlapping
    cultural developments in fields such as philosophy, poetry,
    film and video.


  * "MURCH"
    Directed by David Ichioka, Edie Ichioka
    Sunday, April 29, Castro Theatre, 4:15 pm
    (also screening three other times)

    ** Walter Murch himself will attend the April 29 screening!

    There are film editors, and then there's Walter Murch, widely
    considered the world's greatest cutter for "Apocalypse Now"
    and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" to name just two.

    "Murch" is an epic sit-down with the man as he discusses his
    theories on why we blink and what this has to do with cutting
    film; why he stands while he works (does a surgeon sit, or an
    orchestra conductor or a butcher?); "A Touch of Evil" (which
    Murch reedited in 1998 guided by Orson Welles's detailed 58-
    page memo written some 40 years earlier); what cooking and
    editing have in common (adding something bitter to bring out
    the inherent sweetness of the dish); and more.


  * "NOTES TO A TOON UNDERGROUND: Animation and Live Music"
    Saturday, May 5, Castro Theatre, 8:30 pm

    Featuring 15 animated films made between 1912 and 2005 by
    six different directors, and with 11 musicians providing
    live accompaniment, it's safe to file this program under
    "This Will Never Happen Again."

    The lineup includes Marc Capelle, Devin Hoff (of Good for
    Cows), Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy) Ches Smith (of Good for
    Cows, Xiu Xiu and Ceramic Dog), Jamie Stewart and Caralee
    McElroy (of Xiu Xiu), Carla Fabrizia (of Gamelan Sekar Jaya),
    Tommy Guerrero, Monte Vallier and Gadget (of Jet Black
    Crayon) and avant-garde legend William Winant. These
    musicians will unveil world premieres of newly composed
    scores to historic and contemporary animated shorts.


*** WIN FREE SFIFF TICKETS ***

    SFIFF has made a pair of tickets for "MURCH" available to
    the Expo community. We'll give the tickets to the first
    person who emails us back and correctly names one other
    film Walter Murch edited, besides the three listed above.
    Simply "reply" to this email, or send your response to:

    expo_info at artsandmedia.net.