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10.16 2015
VANESSA RENWICK’S “NSEW FILM TOUR”
“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.
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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.