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 2.27
8pm backroom $6
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A Galapagos resident
artist!
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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A
Galapagos resident artist!
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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A
Galapagos resident artist!
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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A Galapagos resident artist!
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!
Click here for more information!
 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
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3.3 8pm $10 in advance/$12 at the door
Also
Fridays
March 10, 17, 24, 31
Neal
Medlyn:
SUPERSTAR DUETS
Performance art superstar Neal Medlyn presents
a program of duets with other performance art
superstars -- including Adrienne Truscott of
the Wau Wau Sisters, Kenny Mellman of Kiki and
Herb, downtown celeb Dynasty Handbag, plus ironic
dance stars VIDS. Five unique evenings of in-your-face
entertainment, riffing on R. Kelly, H20, gender,
lookin' for beats, and monsters. And blood.
It's a whole different duet, and a whole different
show, every night!
Tonight: LIONEL RICHIE (not really) and
Neal will re-stage the LIONEL RICHIE OPERA,
presented to great acclaim all around the country
this year. This will be a new, even bigger version,
a screwed and chopped remix with a dream ballet.
"Daring!" -Time Out New York
"A
stream-of-consciousness striptease... like Jim
Carrey on caffeine, being electrocuted"
-NPR
"A
quirky and appealing performer" -The
New York Times
www.nealmedlyn.com
Purchase
tickets now at Smarttix.com - CLICK
HERE!
 3.3
10pm FREE frontroom
Heekin
NYC
based band Heekin is a power trio set to blaze
a trail for themselves with their soulful, sharply
crafted brand of rock-n-roll. Celebrating the
release of their first E.P., Earthquakes, Heekin
is an up and coming group not to be missed.
 3.3
10pm $5 backroom
SWINGER 8
Swinger
Eight - "Brooklyn's Greatest Unsigned Band"
- are playing a special show at Galapagos Art
Space. The Williamsburg natives are going to put
on a multi-media show, blending their psychedelic-pop
based sounds with various artists' video projections
shown behind the band, as they play several new
instrumentals, and a few tracks off of their upcoming
record, "2:22am."
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