Arts Council Of Beaufort County
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Southern Circuit Tour of
Originated by South Carolina Arts Commission in 1975, Southern Circuit provides
communities across the South with a tour of highly talented independent filmmakers.
Initially launched in three South Carolina cities, the film tour has visited over
30 communities across the Southern United States. Since its inception, Southern
Circuit audiences have seen over 200 films and have engaged filmmakers in
post-screening discussions of the subjects and themes portrayed in their works. Southern Circuit, now produced by the Southern Arts Federation, is the nation’s only regional tour of independent filmmakers,
providing communities with an interactive way of experiencing independent film.
The tour takes the audience away from their televisions, DVD players, and computers
to connect them with independent filmmakers and encourage them to talk with one
another about the films and their meanings. Southern Circuit transforms watching
independent films from a solitary experience into a communal one. The Arts Council of Beaufort County has presented Southern Circuit in Beaufort since 1997
Screenings will be held at the Arts Council of Beaufort County Performance Space (beginning
with the 02/01/08 film), 1111 Boundary Street. All screenings are scheduled for
Friday evenings and doors open at 7:00PM with films beginning at 7:30PM.
ACBC offers a Season Ticket (six films) for $35, which can be purchased in advance
from the ACBC Office Manager, Emily Post @ 379-ARTS. Individual tickets are also
available in advance or at the door; Adults ~ $7 and Students ~ $4.
The ACBC is
proud to announce the 2007 - 2008 Season September 14, 2007 ~
The Short Films of Roger Beebe: Documents, Experiments, & Wisecracks
Filmmaker: Roger Beebe
His topics range from a look at the suburban landscape in The Strip Mall Trilogy
and Composition in Red in Yellow, to an exploration of technology in gender in A
Woman, A Mirror, to a satire of traditional binary thinking about race in Famous
Irish Americans. His style is just as diverse as his material. He shoots in
high-tech digital, traditional 16mm, or home video double 8mm, and Super 8 film.
Some of his films are marked by a vivid, intense, and fast paced montage style,
while others take a more quiet and thoughtful approach to the subject matter at hand. Opening Short:
October 19, 2007 ~
Third Ward, TX Directed by Andrew Garrison
Watch the trailer!;
In the early nineties, a step ahead of city demolition crews, a group of African American artists
took over a block of abandoned, condemned, row houses in Houston's Third Ward. They wanted
to start a dialog on conditions in the neighborhood by bringing attention to this
forlorn, crime-infested site. What they had in mind was a temporary, “drive-by”
exhibition. But they set in motion an unprecedented model for community renewal
and personal transformation that has gained international notice. Their venture,
named “Project Row Houses,” has created a neighborhood that is no longer a
debased symbol of poverty and hopelessness. It is now a beacon of strength and
imagination - a passionate and committed experiment in living based on a creative
application of art, historical consciousness, education, and the creation of
low-income housing. Third Ward, TX explores how this tidy little row of born-again houses has become
home to cutting-edge public art and a home-grown challenge to traditional notions
of community development. In fact, their success in creating a neighborhood that
is safe, livable and desirable has attracted the forces that may destroy what they
have labored to make-- real estate development and gentrification. Opening Short:
November 9, 2007 ~
Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea Filmmaker: Christopher Metzler
Opening Short:
February 1, 2008 ~
Apparition of the Eternal Church Filmmaker: Paul Festa
Opening Short:
March 14, 2008 ~
Kamp Katrina, Filmmaker: David Redmon
Open
April 25, 2008 ~
Willow Garden, Filmmaker: Jim Haverkamp
Opening Short:
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Filmmaker Roger Beebe has been making experimental shorts for well over a decade,
using a wide variety of media and styles. In his collection Four More Years,
he draws from the middle portion of his career, the years 2001-2005, in order
to give us an exploration of the American landscape, both in a physical and
psychological fashion. Through films that range from the wildly aggressive,
nearly frantic pace of The Strip Mall Trilogy to the more slow and contemplative
SAVE, Beebe highlights many of the amusing contradictions, interesting juxtapositions,
and strange quirks of the contemporary world.
In the middle of a harsh desert valley in California's southeast corner, lies a
glimmering blue jewel - the Salton Sea. Along its desolate shores stand boarded-up
motels, dusty rural towns, half-flooded vacation homes, and miles of sun-crisped
fish carcasses. Amid this surreal and apocalyptic landscape survives a most unusual and
unexpected group of eccentrics, who have carved out their own slice of paradise
on the shores of this ecological disaster. Through their perceptions and misperceptions,
the strange history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed.
In this award-winning film, 31 artists and thinkers listen to a ten-minute piece of
music through headphones and describe what they hear. What all but a few don't know
is that the music is Olivier Messiaen's monumental organ work Apparition of the
Eternal Church. A devout Catholic and the organist at the Church of the Trinity in
Paris, Messiaen wrote this music to send listeners to the heights of spiritual ecstasy.
Ashley Sabin and David Redmon's Kamp Katrina follows New Orleans Upper 9th Ward
resident, Ms. Pearl and her attempt to open up her backyard to give shelter to t
hose who lost their homes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Only a month after
the storm, she hears a community organizer urging residents to open their homes
to the displaced. The warm-hearted Ms. Pearl enthusiastically offers her backyard
and soon ten people move into "Kamp Katrina."
In 1740s Northern Ireland, a young man becomes ensnared in a deadly love triangle
and must decide whether to follow his heart or his father's twisted advice. Shot
in an expressionistic, film noir style, Willow Garden tells the backstory of one
of America's strangest murder ballads.