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10.16 2015

VANESSA RENWICK’S “NSEW FILM TOUR”

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“Vanessa Renwick’s films reveal the hidden stories & secret lives that define our great national weirdness, imbued with the radical curiosity and vision of a true pioneer.” Todd Haynes filmmaker

Filmmaker Vanessa Renwick comes to Space 1026 for the first time since 2002, on her “NSEW Film Tour”! She will present a collection of her amazing short experimental and documentary film work. Without fail, the work is intense, hard to pin down, and even harder to forget.

These short, personal constructions demonstrate a wide range of formal approaches and subjects that include nuclear power, hitchhiking, Toxic Shock, wolves, jellyfish, and a taste of the wild west, be it a horse fighting a bear, a homoerotic rodeo or the gentrification of Portland.

SUNDAY October 18th
7:30pm
$10.00
Space 1026
1026 Arch Street 2nd floor

Films feature with scores by Sam Coomes, Tara Jane ONeil, Lori Goldston, Jef Brown, Donovan Skirvin, Johnee Eschelman, Chris Sands and more!

Vanessa will do a Q&A after the screening. DON’T MISS THIS RARE VISIT!!!!

05.19 2013

TONIGHT: CALVIN JOHNSON, CHAIN & THE GANG, ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO @ Space1026 MAY 19th!


We are super pumped to present:
CALVIN JOHNSON (ex-Beat Happening, Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic)
CHAIN AND THE GANG (ex-Nation of Ulysseus, The Make-Up)
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO (ex-Old Time Relijun)

SUNDAY May 19th
7:00pm $10.00
(no advance tickets)
@Space 1026
1026 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
www.space1026.com

05.02 2013

CALVIN JOHNSON, CHAIN & THE GANG, ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO @ Space1026 MAY 19th!


We are super pumped to present:
CALVIN JOHNSON (ex-Beat Happening, Halo Benders, Dub Narcotic)
CHAIN AND THE GANG (ex-Nation of Ulysseus, The Make-Up)
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO (ex-Old Time Relijun)

SUNDAY May 19th
7:00pm $10.00
(no advance tickets)
@Space 1026
1026 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
www.space1026.com

11.30 2011

LECTURE: “A BRIEF HISTORY OF PORN” SATURDAY December 3rd 8:00pm

“A Brief History of Porn: A Multimedia Lecture” 8:00pm @ Space 1026

FREE!

“A Brief History of Porn” is a multimedia lecture delivered by Sam Benjamin, author of the forthcoming book, “American Gangbang: A  Love Story” (Simon and Schuster, 2011), a true memoir of Benjamin’s five-year stint as director and performer in Los Angeles’s adult film industry.

Length: Approximately 90minutes.

CHECK OUT ALL THE AWESOME STUFF GOING ON THIS WEEK HERE: http://www.facebook.com/events/277738052263974/

About Sam Benjamin

Sam Benjamin was born in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. From 1995 to 1999, he attended Brown University. Upon graduating, he received the annual William J. Weston Award for achievement in Film and Video. Post-school life led Sam to Santa Cruz, California, where he first conceived of his pornographic destiny. He would create “feel-good” erotic films – adult movies that actually had some sort of plot – and sell them on eBay, garnering a modest fame for his efforts, revolutionizing a dying genre, and making a small killing in the process.

Benjamin worked in porn for three years; became rich; found porno love; broke his heart; burnt out; quit the biz; cleared his head; atoned for his sins; returned home; applied to graduate school.

Sam Benjamin graduated from the California Institute of the Arts in 2005, with a joint degree in Critical Studies and Integrated Media. He has been a guest lecturer at NYU and will speak extensively this fall at universities across the United States.

 

10.17 2010

LASERCAVE TOUR @ Space 1026 10/18/10

Lasercave is sending their three finest ambassadors on a national tour of sound and vision. The three acts, representing the best of Portland’s music and art scene – JEFFREY JERUSALEM, squarely in the center of Portland’ electronic renaissance; BRAINSTORM, winning hearts and blowing minds with genre-bending gospel prog; and JESSE MALMED, producing future-thinking video art and participatory song poems.

MONDAY October 18th
8:00pm
$5.00
@Space 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd floor

JEFFREY JERUSALEM’s hyperkinetic attitude and boundary-bursting tastes combine playful, lo-fi bedroom disco with the top shelf techno-craftsmanship of his peers at DFA. Jerusalem, recently back from tour with YACHT and Bobby Birdman, has also shared bills with Girltalk, Drop The Lime, Starfucker, Nurses, and Holy Ghost. (http://www.myspace.com/jeffreyjerusalem)

BRAINSTORM’s ecstatic and eclectic two-piece is like an eight-dollar smoothie made of Deerhoof, Sam Cooke, The USAisaMonster, and a little African highlife. Packing venues all over Portland, the band recently headlined at PDX POP NOW, has shared bills with Japanther and the Boredoms and, according to the Portland Mercury, “manages to sound like the entirety of Portland’s music scene whirled up in a blender, in a very good way.” (http://www.myspace.com/brainstormbrainstorm)

JESSE MALMED’s series of video-based song poems, lush videos, and Conversational Karaoke (a participatory installation in which the “audience” enacts complex, charming and strange dialogues of the artist’s design) are future-thinking, yet squarely set in the realms of historical experimental film, conceptual poetics, and ecstatic improvisation. (http://www.jessemalmed.net)

10.06 2010

TONIGHT! “OPTICAL BOUNDARIES” 16mm Film Screening



THURSDAY October 7th
7:30pm @ Space 1026
Suggested Donation $5.00

Check out new 16mm films from touring filmmakers Steve (aka Vegan Steven) Cossman, Ross Nugent and Fern Silva. Also videos from Andrew Jeffrey Wright and Ted Passon.

MORE INFO: HERE

08.16 2010

TONIGHT! Kimya Dawson @ Space 1026!

TONIGHT! August 16th * 8:00pm* $10.00
@Space 1026: 1026 Arch St. 2nd floor
SEATING WILL BE LIMITED * NO ADVANCE TICKETS

KIMYA DAWSON
The always amazing Kimya Dawson plays folk songs that embrace nostalgia, melancholy and sincerity, as she takes on subjects of love, growing up, growing old, Matlock, and Atari 2600s. Seeing her live in such an intimate venue as 1026 is the best way to see her. K Records.

PABLO DAS
Homocentric Buddhist acousti-spiritual-folk punk from the lower east side of New York City. Legendary anti-folk performer and all around amazingness.

DAVE END
Music for people who unironically talk to dogs. An edible beanbag chair. A grilled corn muffin at a diner served by a hyper-active waitress who answers questions you didn’t ask, how to hold your own hand, fruits that are commonly mistaken for vegetables, children’s music for adults, ‘cuddle-core’ (unless this is a sub-culture that exists already), and a hybrid between the violent femmes and raffee, queer cupcake-loving honesty pop, an edgy guide to loving every inch of yourself, “that kid”

08.09 2010

KIMYA DAWSON @ 1026 MONDAY 8/16 8:00pm

THIS MONDAY August 16th * 8:00pm* $10.00
@Space 1026: 1026 Arch St. 2nd floor
SEATING WILL BE LIMITED * NO ADVANCE TICKETS

KIMYA DAWSON
The always amazing Kimya Dawson plays folk songs that embrace nostalgia, melancholy and sincerity, as she takes on subjects of love, growing up, growing old, Matlock, and Atari 2600s. Seeing her live in such an intimate venue as 1026 is the best way to see her. K Records.

PABLO DAS
Homocentric Buddhist acousti-spiritual-folk punk from the lower east side of New York City. Legendary anti-folk performer and all around amazingness.

DAVE END
Music for people who unironically talk to dogs. An edible beanbag chair. A grilled corn muffin at a diner served by a hyper-active waitress who answers questions you didn’t ask, how to hold your own hand, fruits that are commonly mistaken for vegetables, children’s music for adults, ‘cuddle-core’ (unless this is a sub-culture that exists already), and a hybrid between the violent femmes and raffee, queer cupcake-loving honesty pop, an edgy guide to loving every inch of yourself, “that kid”

07.17 2010

SUNDAY July 18: Miwa Matreyek LIVE/VIDEO Performances

Small Change Screenings Presents:
MIWA MATREYEK: LIVE VIDEO PERFORMANCES

SUNDAY July 18
*due to the intimate size of 1026 there will be two shows*
8:30pm first show
9:30pm second show
$6.00
Space 1026
1026 Arch St. 2nd floor
Philadelphia, PA

http://www.smallchangescreenings.com

We are super excited to present the groundbreaking work of live video performance artist Miwa Matreyek! Due to the intimate size of Space 1026 we have added a second show. DO NOT MISS THIS SPECIAL RARE PERFORMANCE!

Miwa Matreyek literally steps in to the fantastical world of her animations. Overlapping her live shadow with projected video, she seamlessly transforms the routine activities of modern life into a surreal exploration of city, self, and discovery.

A recent graduate from CalArt’s Experimental Animation program, Miwa Matreyek is an animator, designer, and multi-media artist working in Los Angeles. She creates animated short films as well as works that integrate animation and live performance/installation via projection.

SNEAK PREVIEW
both shows will contain the following works performed live:

Myth and Infrastructure 4 minute excerpts from miwa matreyek on Vimeo.

Dreaming of Lucid Living 2 min trailer edit from miwa matreyek on Vimeo.


06.14 2010

Two Movies About Photographers