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weekly events feb 27-march 5
For ticketed shows, the box office will open
30 minutes prior to showtime.
Advance tickets available to select events
through www.smarttix.com


this week: monday - tuesday - wednesday - thursday - friday - saturday - sunday


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2.27 8pm backroom $6

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Ocularis presents
Martha Colburn and Company


Brainwashed Japanese school children, media bombardment, fetishistic comic worlds, demented home movies, Modernist Robot attacks: these cruel realities of linear life plus a smattering of good form and bad taste are all on the menu thanks to guest programmer Martha Colburn, the queen of cut-out animation. Tonight she offers up a sample of her own work with a side of some favorite films, finishing it all off with a few “found” treats from her personal archive. Sure to surprise, Colburn’s show promises to be as perverse, homespun, and spazztastic as her art.

Highlights include films by French collective Le Denier Cri, new work from Chinese artist Mo Xue, video by Greg Smith, as well as Colburn's first animation, Caffeine Jam, a mad adventure following two musicians through alligator pits and troublesome bullrings.

"The uniqueness of Martha Colburn, to me, is the explosive energy and craft with which she brings up-to-date, and pushes further, the film form of found-image-collage established by Stan Vanderbeek and Dick Preston in the Sixties. She has invented her own techniques and language that permits her to fuse the grotesque images of our popular civilization as produced by our image industries, to make film songs of universal sadness of our times. Bordering on the outrageous, crackling frame energy, Martha Colburn films are naked testimonials of our times, and of her generations." - Jonas Mekas

www.marthacolburn.com

Visit www.ocularis.net for more information

2.27 8pm FREE

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Smut

The New York Times writes about SMUT, "It's art that should carry a Parental Advisory label, with some of New York City's best writers and performers."


Presenting Elle Burchill, a experimental video maker and writer living in Brooklyn. Her videos have screened at venues including Ocularis, The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Anthology Firlm Archives, the Chicago Underground Film Festival, and Cesta's International Independent Film and Video Series in the Czech Republic.

Plus Lindell Blai, Abe Goldfarb, JB McGeever

2.27 10pm FREE

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MONDAY EVENING BURLESQUE

A night of classic burlesque hosted by WORLD FAMOUS BOB

World Famous Bob is a Galapagos favorite. She's sexy, funny, and articulate. Plus, her breasts were voted Best in New York by The Village Voice. She hosts an evening of some of NYC's best burlesque talents.

 



 

2.28 8pm frontroom FREE

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Regie Cabico's
SULU Performance Program

Acclaimed poet and performance artist Regie Cabico's new series, featuring emerging and senior Asian American artists in all disciplines.

Cabico says, "This is the only performance showcase of its kind with this scope.. it will mix comedy with a strong political backbone and artistic styles. The fact that this series isn't named after a fruit, a beverage or anything edible in the Orient is already taking us light years ahead."



>> Opening Night of the South American Film Festival, 2/28-3/2!
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2.28 8pm backroom $8

State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism
Followed by Q&A by the directors
Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com

Part of the South American Film Festival!


Peter Kinoy, Pamela Yates, Paco de Onis, USA, 2005, 94 min
Audience Award, Amnesty International Film Festival
Film Critics' Award, Chicago Documentary Festival
Henry Hampton Award, Council on Foundations
Moving from the breathtaking beauty of the Peruvian Andes to the graceful sweep of coastal Lima, Pamela Yates' harrowing documentary "State of Fear" chronicles 20 years of terror, brutality and repression. Based on the testimony of more than 16,000 people to the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the film begins with the rise of the Maoist leader Abimael Guzmán and his Shining Path guerrillas and culminates in the collapse of President Alberto K. Fujimori's government in November 2000, when Mr. Fujimori resigned during a corruption scandal. Between those events lie an estimated 70,000 dead and untold numbers scarred for life. "State of Fear" is a timely lesson on the hazards of choosing security over democracy.

Special thanks to Ocularis, our resident film series for all their help!


2.28 10pm frontroom free

Miscellaneous with Joe Praino

Comedian Joe Praino (HappyYoungPeople.com) presents a variety of stand-up, sketches and films. Just like your sleep away camp talent show only the performers are on harder drugs. Miscellaneous is to comedy shows what Arby's is to fast-food.




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3.1 8pm frontroom FREE

Digital Gypsy + Sabir Mateen Quartet + Tarapith

Tarapith's music carves a space for itself in between 70's avant garde, Indian music, free jazz and progressive rock

www.tarapithny.com



3.1 9:15 pm backroom $8

I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com

Part of the South American Film Festival!

I am Cuba, the Siberian Mammoth
Presented by Cinema Tropical
Vincente Ferraz, Brazil, 2004, 90min
Grand Jury Prize, World Cinema - Documentary, Sundance Film Festival
"I am Cuba, The Siberian Mammoth" chronicles the making of the film "I am Cuba", the extraordinary, and for decades unknown, film that the famous Soviet director, Mikhail Kalatozov made in Cuba in the early 1960s during the time of the Cold War. This super production was intended to be a propaganda piece for the Cuban revolution. However, a week after its screening in Moscow and Cuba, it was taken out of release, stored and consequently unknown to the West for more than 30 years until the discovery of this gem by Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola. Through a combination of breathtaking shots from the original film and interviews with surviving Soviet and Cuban cast and crew members, Ferraz investigates the motives behind the banning of the film. The resulting documentary provides us with insight into the ideology of the Cold War, the recent history of Cuba, and the great irony of I am Cuba which only the passage of time has been able to reveal.

Special thanks to Ocularis, our resident film series for all their help!




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3.2 7:30pm backroom $8

Brazilian Night 2 Films followed by an After Party

Part of the South American Film Festival!


7:30pm - Carreiras
Tickets $8 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
Domingos Oliveira, Brazil, 2005, 72min, US premiere
Best actress, Gramado Film Festival, Brazil
"Carreiras" in Portuguese can mean lines of coke, rush, or careers. All three of these components are combined in this film to drive the main character, a 40-something Jewish-Brazilian TV anchor woman who faces her "long night of madness", snorting grams of cocaine and trying to break the "system". Her resentment stems from losing her status at the channel where she works, being replaced now by younger women. As dawn breaks a surprise awaits her, leading her to reverse the course of events. The film mixes frantic language with an often acidic humor. Loosely based on the play Corpo a Corpo, by Oduvaldo Vianna Filho. Ana Laura is wonderfully played by Priscilla Rozenbaum, in a role which won her second Best Actress Award at the Gramado Film Festival, 2005.
This a Brazilian Independent Film shot on digital format with a low budget by veteran film maker Domingos Olivera.

9:00pm - Straight to the Point
Tickets $6 with RSVP rsvp@galapagosartspace.com
Marcia Derraik & Simplicio Neto, Brazil, 2001, 52min
Special Jury Award, Gramado Film Festival, Brazil
"Cine Mambembe", Short Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Best Documentary Short Film, Film and Video Festival, Cuiabá, Brazil
Best Short Film , Rio Film Festival
Bezerra da Silva is one of the greatest recording artists in Brazil. In his sambandidos (gangsta sambas), the word "love" is never heard. His favorite subjects are the survival tactics of the cool dude dodging the law to survive.
His amazing songwriting team is composed of young pagodeiros, from the thriving favelas high up on the hills of Rio de Janeiro, and the Baixada Fluminense - the lowlands surrounding the city. Known as "Popular P", "Adelzonilton", "Walmir da Purificação", "Roxinho", 1000tinho, these are the true poets of the hills, in and out of prison, subjected to torture, patching together an existence as electricians, mechanics, firemen, people coping daily with violence and tragedy, and for this very reason, the idiosyncratic reality of 'malandragem" (gangsta cool), of law evasion for survival, which inspires them to write sambas that are contagious and the most faithful register of their social reality.

A "Brazilian After Party" will follow the screenings on Thursday March 2nd featuring Forro in the Dark (10:30pm till close) along with other artist (TBC)

Forro In The Dark plays the music of Luiz Gonzaga, the King Of Baião, a style of Northeastern Brazilian dance music that is built around a trio of accordion, triangle and zabumba (a small bass drum that sounds huge). The relentless driving rhythms of the accordion, much like Zydeco, combine together with beautiful and distinctly Brazilian melodies. Often humorous, these are songs about life in the rugged, dry and unforgiving landscape of northern Brazil. This is party music for hard working people who would gather together at night for a "forro", where they could drink and dance and forget their troubles. "Forro In The Dark" is Rob Curto on accordion, Mauro Refosco on zabumba, Jorginho Amorim on triangle, Sergio Brandão on bass and cavaquino, Smokey Hormel on guitar. Individually, they have played with Beck, David Byrne, Johnny Cash, Rosemary Clooney, and Bebel Giberto. As a group, they bring a contagious sense of joy to the room whenever they play these great Gonzaga songs, inspiring people of all races and ages to dance away their blues. For more information, visit www.nublu.net

Special thanks to Ocularis, our resident film series for all their help!


3.2 8pm frontroom FREE

Late Night Players

The Late Night Players deliver fine sketch comedy. Based out of Boston, the LNP will be zipping through New York as part of their national tour '06.

"A smarter Saturday Night Live" -The Boston Phoenix
"A sure shot" -The Boston Metro

http://www.latenightplayers.com