~BEING TRUE/4 FILMS/the journal Gallery/to-nite!!
the journal Gallery – INVITES Y’ALL TO A SCREENING OF 4 FILMS BY ARTISTS FEATURED IN THEIR CURRENT EXHIBIT – ‘Being True’ – to-nite !! – SATURDAY – APRIL 26, 2008 – 8pm.
the journal Gallery – 168 North 1st STREET – BROOKLYN
’22 YEARS OF AMERICAN YOUTH’/’BEING TRUE’/A GROUP SHOW OF PHOTOGRAPHS BY 22 AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHERS/CURATED BY EMMA REEVES and AARON ROSE/SPONSORED BY NIKE
“In celebration of the spirit of ‘Being True’, curators EMMA REEVES and AARON ROSE offer us
another lens through which to experience those who dare to use self expression as a vehicle to provoke through their work. Selected from the exhibition’s 22 contributing artists, BRENT STEWART, ARI MARCOPOULOS, JEANEEN Lund, and TOBIN YELLAND present 4 unique films that commemorate the essence of ‘Being True’.” – press release
the films:
THE ALUMINUM FOWL (2006)
Directed by JAMES CLAUER with still photographs by ‘Being True’ contributor BRENT STEWART. Produced by HARMONY KORINE. A glimpse of four brothers’ daily obsessions with chickens, rap, music, and aliens. (13 mins.)
CRAIG KELLY (2008)
Directed by ARI MARCOPOULOS. A “work-in-progress” version of a feature length documentary based on the life of world-champion snowboarder CRAIG KELLY. An intimate look at the life of the great athlete and charismatic personality who was sadly killed in an avalanche in 2003.
(20 mins.)
VIVA MORRISSEY! (2006)
Directed by JESSICA HUNDLEY, with still photographs by ‘Being True’ contributor JEANEEN LUND. (10 mins.)
THORN AND TOAD (2003)
Directed by TOBIN YELLAND. “Thorn and Toad is two sides of a story about a fight. I basically filmed each story and cut them together. I’ve known Thorn for fifteen years and Toad for around ten.” – T. (4 mins.)
UP-DATE: MONDAY APRIL 28, 2008
it was an amazing screening – intense, hyper, brief, (brief as hell!!) – and stunning. absolutely stunning. it was like watching a snowflake implode !! – blink – and, too bad !! – you missed it – losers !!
SOME PIX FROM THE APRIL 26, 2008 SCREENING
PHOTOS: NANCY SMITH
THE ALUMINUM FOWL (20060
Directed by JAMES CLAUER with still photographs by ‘Being True contributor BRENT STEWART. Produced by harmony Korine. (13 mins.)
THE ALUMINUM FOWL – bored to death – with their dead end lives, even though still so young, and strong – 4 brothers down south – say of their culture – all we got to do down here, is kill things to watch them die. and one pulls off a chicken’s head. like he does it all the time – no big deal, and we watch its death twirl and final stop.
one brother was obsessed with twisting silver foil around everything and everyone. he seemed kind of dumb. the first bro profiled, above, who alternately loved and lived with the chickens, and then killed some, (ones that he didn’t live with !!) was our fave. he felt like a natural writer/storyteller. he was also the main narrator. one another bro – was totally awesome – not many words – very aggressive. he just got on his BMW and rode/pedaled as fast as he could down a long long stretch of smoothly paved mall concrete, and just flew off the end/embarkment, a sudden drop-off of at least 4 feet. fearless. absolutely sure of his physical skill. the smartest. you really felt his life, his potential for skills was really being wasted by his poverty & rural dead end up-bringing.
THE ALUMINUM FOWL
THE ALUMINUM FOWL – a chicken farm
CRAIG KELLY (2008)
Directed by Ari Marcopoulos. a kaleidoscopic of archival footage of world-champion snowboarder CRAIG KELLY, as he flies by board, at great speed, over uncharted virgin snow fields down steeply inclined mountain ranges.
He was also fearless and one with his speed. the stun element in this clip – was powerfully visual – the speed & and the snowscapes rushing by. the stun element in the first clip – was also visual – but also psychological – for one, the dead chicken dance.
CRAIG KELLY
CRAIG KELLY
THORN AND TOAD (2003)
Directed by TOBIN YELLAND. (4 mins.) the kid is saying something like ..”the world is full of really tough people. and I’m not that tough.. or .. I’m not tough enough ( .. to keep from getting beat…)
VIVA MORRISSEY! (2006)
Directed by JESSICA HUNDLEY, with still photographs by ‘Being True’ contributor JEANEEN LUND. (10 mins.)
A portrait of the Los Angeles based LATINO MORISSEY FAN CLUB. It was was formatted as a standard rock documentary – except its focus on this niche of Angeleno MORRISSEY fans was – very telling, and gave it a uniqueness.
VIVA MORRISSEY
this clip was unique for its subjects – Angeleno MORRISSEY fans – definite self-described outsiders – who really really relate to the lyrics and soul of the MORRISSEY music.
definitely not – the beautiful loser hipsters of RYAN McGINLEY’S MORRISSEY tour photos. nor even the beautiful slackers of LARRY CLARK. but beautiful, stunningly so, nonetheless in their own dark secret way, esp when we see them partying up close in mixed male/female big (hot chemistry) groups. they become very charismatic – when comfortable among their peers or just talking individually – all centered around – you got it – MORRISSEY.
VIVA MORRISSEY
VIVA MORRISSEY
VIVA MORRISSEY
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VIVA MORRISSEY
VIVA MORRISSEY
MICHAEL NEVIN and KATHY LO, outside the journal Gallery, evening of the screening
JOSH PORTER, center in light green shirt, ASSOCIATE BRAND MANAGER, NIKE, setting up
the journal founder MICHAEL NEVIN, with JULIA DIPPELHOFFER, the Managing Editor of the journal (and also his wife)
photograph behind them – ‘C4, FOUR FINGERS’ – by CHERYL DUNN, SAN FRANCISCO, 1998
the journal event photographer KATHY LO.
Her photos documenting events at the journal Gallery are regularly posted on the journal/website.
She took these photos, featured on a previous artlovers post: ‘TRUE BEING’/NIKE opening
(is this cliche – but does she remind anyone else of MAY PANG, when she was a young, and casual, photographer of JOHN LENNON, during his “LOST WEEKEND” – as chronicled in archival pix in her very moving, newly released book – ‘instamatic karma’ – ‘photographs of John Lennon’ by May Pang’ ?)
HISHAM BHAROOCHA drops by
filmmaker/photographer TOBIN YELLAND
TOBIN YELLAND – ‘ETHAN FOWLER’ – BENICIA, California, 1995
TOBIN YELLAND: . . . “we were driving out of San Francisco to go skate Benicia or Santa Rose skatepark … Ethan was 17 and we just filmed a video part for a new company he started riding for. He is basically at the height of his power as a skateboarder. He makes everything look effortless on and off his board…. I choose this image because this photograph embodies enjoying the fruits of hard work and still throwing caution to the wind and above all knowing the importance of having a good time!”
ALAIN LEVITT – ‘CAB’ – LOWER EAST SIDE, New York, 2001
POPPY De VILLENEUVE – ‘THE GANG’ – QUEMADO, Texas, 2007
NAOMI HARRIS – ‘THRILLER’ – MICHAEL JACKSON TRIAL, SANTA MARIA, California, 2005
TERRY RICHARDSON – ‘METAL HEAD KIDS’ – NEW JERSEY, 1996
the journal – archival issue/entry 19/Spring 2007 – artwork by AUREL SCHMIDT