Psyche Out Cinema Series

27 February 2005

Wellington is full to brimming with movie theatres, many of them showing independent or festival films, and very successfully too. But for cinema-goers seeking something seriously left of centre the New Zealand Film Archive has Other Cinema. Created by 40 - something San Franciscan, Craig Baldwin the Other Cinema series has gained a cult following overseas and the Film Archive are pleased to have three of the mind-bending "collage" films to screen.
Looting the media of America's past, Craig Baldwin and his Other Cinema series present a retrospective vision of an alarmingly authoritarian culture. The films are pieced together from lost film trailers, forgotten advertisements, corporate and educational films made in the era of the Cold War. Cutting and pasting scenes Baldwin simultaneously creates a new film and provides a chilling reminder of life in the not so distant past.
The Film Archive screens Spectres of the Spectrum, Experiments in Terror and Sonic Oddities on Thursdays at 7pm from 10 March until 28 April.

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Rebecca Adams
Publicist
Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua
The New Zealand Film Archive
PO Box 11449 Wellington
Aotearoa, New Zealand
ph +64 4 384 7647
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http://www.filmarchive.org.nz

Submitted by The Film Archive on Sun, 27/02/2005 - 10:05pm.