Friday, June 22

Doors at 5:00 PM, Screening at 5:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

No Response Festival and the Mini Microcinema are proud to present a program of rarely screened, largely unseen, and vital pieces of regional video art/experimental music history!

JOHNNY VORTEX presents D street: avenue of fear (1985)
Collaboration between John Bender/Kate Gallion/Jason Tannen

JUD YALKUT music videos for DEMENTIA PRECOX (1982)
Coppola13 / She's Just / FLA(W) Girls / Untitled (as of yet) / Maladie D' Esprit

Jud Yalkut was a pioneering filmmaker and media artist. His remarkable collection of moving image work, which spanned fifty years, ranged from early performance renderings and poetic filmic experiments to a series of groundbreaking hybrid video-film collaborations with NamJune Paik. Transcending and transforming media as he explored and merged film, video, expanded cinema, electronic manipulations, performance and installation, he created seminal intermedia projects with numerous artists, filmmakers, musicians and performers.
In 1973, Yalkut left New York to start a video and film program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio and became one of the founders of Dayton's Visual Arts Center.

Dementia Precox were a Dayton, OH industrial, noise, experimental band that existed off and on from 1980-2007. 
Sometimes more Throbbing Gristle, sometimes more Wax Trax, always unique.
Everyone from Robert Pollard to Trent Reznor have cited them as an influence.

Doors 5pm / all ages / free (donations encouraged)

Mini Microcinema
1329 Main St.
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(across from the Woodward Theater!)

for more details consult-
http://www.mini-cinema.org/ or https://www.noresponsefestival.com/

Thursday, June 7, 2018

FILM FRINGE - PROGRAM #5

How To Get From Here To There (2018) Directed by Kevin James Thornton

Doors at 7:15 PM, Screening at 7:45 PM @ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

A gay man in blue collar America returns to his childhood home after the death of his mother. In his old bedroom, he discovers the ability to time travel and he blasts through the mistakes of his life. It’s a southern gothic, time traveling sci-fi gay love story! The special effects are done through the eyes of a child. The story is a metaphor for how the choices we make effect our destiny. (Work-in-Progress)(90 minutes) TICKETS: $10

Tuesday, June 5, 2018
FILM FRINGE - PROGRAM #4

Inhumanwich! (2016) Directed by David Cornelius

Doors at 7:15 PM, Screening at 7:45 PM @ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

When all-American astronaut Joe Neumann mutates into an
unstoppable blob of meat, it’s up to a team of devoted scientists and
hard-nosed soldiers to stop the creature before it devours the planet.
Yes, really. (70 minutes) TICKETS: $10

ALL TICKETS: $10
TO PURCHASE PLEASE VISIT: https://www.cincyfringe.com/

Sunday, June 3, 2018

FILM FRINGE - PROGRAM #3
In The Jungle (2017) Directed by Stephanie M. Barber

Doors at 7:15 PM, Screening at 7:45 PM @ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

In The Jungle is a musical essay film written and directed by
Stephanie Barber, and starring Cricket Arrison (of Wham City) and
M.C. Schmidt (of Matmos). In The Jungle, playfully and sorrowfully
tells the tale of an unreliable narrator in a self imposed exile. Given a grant to study the equivalent of animal cries and whines in jungle flora, our heroine has lived for 5 years deep in an unnamed jungle. This jungle serves as an extended metaphor for excessive and continual growth, death, fear and sustenance; a metaphorical space of chaos in which the scientist finds solace and which stands in contrast to the human jungle of “civilization.” The collision of human civilization and wildlife is both a contemplation of extinction and environmentalism as well as a metaphor for the wild in our psyches and imagination. (63 minutes) TICKETS: $10

ALL TICKETS: $10
TO PURCHASE PLEASE VISIT: https://www.cincyfringe.com/

Saturday, June 2, 2018

FILM FRINGE - PROGRAM #2
The Pink Egg (2016) Directed by Jim Trainor

Doors at 7:15 PM, Screening at 7:45 PM @ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

In The Pink Egg, directed by Chicago filmmaker Jim Trainer, the life
cycles of various kinds of wasps and bees are enacted by human actors. Its purpose is to depict with emotion, humor and unnerving specificity an alternative society that actually exists but has nothing to do with human beings. (70 minutes) TICKETS: $10

ALL TICKETS: $10
TO PURCHASE PLEASE VISIT: https://www.cincyfringe.com/

Thursday, May 31, 2018
FILM FRINGE - PROGRAM #1

Salute Your Shorts - Some Short Films!

Doors at 7:15 PM, Screening at 7:45 PM @ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Salute Your Shorts is a program of short films of various genres, from comedy to animation and even a sci-fi soap opera! Including work by Andrew Day, InquisInc, Mike Olenick, Nicholas Thurkettle, and Thu Tran. Plus the local premiere of a new short film by Cincinnati’s own Andre Hyland. (60 minutes) TICKETS: $10

ALL TICKETS: $10
TO PURCHASE PLEASE VISIT: https://www.cincyfringe.com/

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Presented by Red Bike

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

To celebrate Bike Month, Red Bike, Cincinnati’s non-profit public bikeshare system, presents The Triplets of Belleville. “This a story of a boy, his grandmother, his dog and his dream of winning the Tour de France. When the boy is kidnapped by two mysterious men during the race, the search leads to the megalopolis of Belleville and the renowned Triplets of Belleville, eccentric female music-hall stars from the ‘30s,” writes Metacritic.  The Triplets of Belleville, an animated pantomimic film, is as much about bicycling as it is about family and a satire of capitalism and the entertainment industry. Presented by:  Elese Daniel, Education & Outreach Manager at Red Bike

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Girlfriends (1978) Directed by Claudia Weill

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Girlfriends, a female-led bildungsroman directed by Claudia Weill, follows Susan, a twenty-something photographer living in NYC whose self-reliance is tested when her best friend and roommate, Anne, announces that she’s getting married. While Anne retreats into Upstate domesticity, Susan must negotiate the demands of friendship and romance, commerce and art, Judaism and bohemianism on an uneven path toward womanhood. With its rough-hewn visual style and intimate depiction of young people adrift, Girlfriends is a forerunner to mumblecore, as well as a textured document of a bygone Manhattan where lofts were still affordable and gallery owners only mildly pretentious. Born in New York City to Jewish parents, Claudia Weill began her film career in television and documentaries before going on to direct feature films. Girlfriends (1978), her first feature, won numerous awards at film festivals and garnered widespread critical praise. Its success paved the way for a second feature, It’s My Turn (1980), along with a string of television directing jobs on series like Thirtysomething (1987), My So-Called Life (1994) and Girls (2013).

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

THE MINI MICROCINEMA AND WESTON ART GALLERY PRESENT...

A PAGE OF MADNESS (1926) Directed by Kinugasa Teinosuke

FILM SCREENING WITH LIVE MUSICAL SCORE BY LITTLE BANG THEORY

Saturday, May 19th, 2018

7PM @ Fifth Third Bank Theater (Aronoff Center)

TICKETS: $12 - visit https://www.cincinnatiarts.org/ or call (513) 621-2787

Detroit area trio Little Bang Theory (Frank Pahl, Terri Sarris, and Doug Shimmin) will perform an original score written by Frank Pahl on toy and handmade instruments for A Page of Madness, one of the greatest avant-garde films in history. Directed by Kinugasa Teinosuke in 1926, and recently remastered after being lost for nearly half a century, the story, by Nobel laureate Kawabata Yasunari, centers on a janitor at the insane asylum that holds his wife.

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Toni Erdmann (2016) Directed by Maren Ade

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

“Any attempt to characterize this film in conventional terms — as a father-daughter story, a feminist satire of corporate behavior, a fable of global capitalism, an extended practical joke — would be woefully insufficient. It’s something new under the sun, a thrilling and discomfiting document of the present moment and also, like every movie that matters, a bulletin from the future.” - NY Times

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Friday, May 11, 2018

Site-Specific: A History of the Mattress Factory

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Through a mix of stories and anecdotes, archival installation footage, and interviews with artists and razor-sharp co-directors Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olijnyk, Site-Specific: A History of the Mattress Factory presents an in-depth look at one of the first site-specific museums in the United States. Founded in 1977 in Pittsburgh, PA, and starting as a quirky, anything goes food co-op and artist studio space, the museum created a program of artist residencies in 1982 to focus on site-specific installation art. The film parallels the installation of the museum’s 40th anniversary exhibition with an in-depth, story-driven journey through the museum’s long history of exhibiting site-specific art. Through interviews with artists such as Ann Hamilton, Sarah Oppenheimer, Vanessa German, Dennis Maher, and others, the film provides an intimate, sometimes humorous, look at the indirect path a museum takes as it creates its identity.

Director David Bernabo in attendance!

Thursday, May 10, 2018

16mm Films by George Kuchar

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

A pivotal figure in the underground cinema of the ‘60s and ‘70s, George Kuchar (1942 – 2011) and his twin brother Michael, grew up in the Bronx and produced hundreds of hilariously goofy films that defy description to this day. George’s riotous works parody all that is Hollywood cinema. They make a mockery of classic cinema conventions on almost no budget and with little in the way of technical skills. "Kuchar's films are overtly insane. Anyone who lived in such a world would be mad inside an hour. … But the utter insanity, the insanity of perverted cliche, is the genuine unwholesome appeal of Kuchar's outlook. Something is very much wrong with the Kuchar world.” - Leonard Lipton

Screenings includes:  Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966), Mosholu Holiday (1966), Pagan Rhapsody (1970), A Reason to Live (1976), and I, An Actress (1977).

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Prague animation - Karel Zeman's The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (please note the modified program - a feature by Zeman will be shown in place of selected shorts due to technical issues)

Presented by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM
@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

The Fabulous Baron Munchausen (1961, Czechoslovakia)
In 1961, Karel Zeman created the finest film adaptation of the outlandish tales of Baron Munchausen, made famous in the 1786 book by Gottfried August Bürger. The incredible adventures of the bragging Baron come to life in a film celebrating the courage and imagination of dreamers and poets.

Zeman took inspiration from the engravings in the 1862 edition, the work one of the greatest illustrators of the 19th century Gustav Doré. The director achieved a visually captivating style by color-tinting the original black and white footage.

In the movie, a groundbreaking combination of live action, animation and puppetry, Munchausen's humorous narrative contrasts with the romantic tale of a modern fantasistTony, who becomes the good Baron's rival in love. In addition to Milos Kopecky in the title role the film features the Czech acting élite of the day.

The film won many international awards, including in Cannes and Locarno. Terry Gilliam admits that his 1988 film “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” was primarily inspired by the Zeman’s version.

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Sunday, May 6, 2018

Monument to Michael Jackson (2014) Directed by Darko Lungulov

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Presented by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

In a dying town in Serbia, an old communist-era monument is removed from the Square. Marko, a daydreamer, is on the verge of divorce from the love of his life. Out of despair, he comes up with the idea to replace the statue with a monument to Michael Jackson in order to save his dying town and seduce his wife again.

“Darko Lungulov's stellar black comedy goes back to a time before the war - all the way back to the 1960s, when Eastern Europe churned out enchanting little stories about people trapped in a world they never made." - John Petkovic, Cleveland Plain Dealer

Director Darko Lungulov in attendance! 

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Saturday, May 5, 2018

Lil’s + Lils - Films for Kids

Doors at 10:30 AM, Screening at 11:00 AM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Enjoy a selection of short films for children. The thirty-minute program includes animated films from all over the world that are either in English or without dialogue. Also enjoy free bagels from Lil’s Bagels and free coffee from Iris Book Cafe. All ages welcome!

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Thursday, May 3, 2018

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Directed by Orson Welles

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

The magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city. In that town in those days, all the women who wore silk or velvet knew all the other women who wore silk or velvet and everybody knew everybody else's family horse and carriage. The only public conveyance was the streetcar. A lady could whistle to it from an upstairs window, and the car would halt at once, and wait for her, while she shut the window ... put on her hat and coat ... went downstairs... found an umbrella... told the 'girl' what to have for dinner...and came forth from the house. Too slow for us nowadays, because the faster we're carried, the less time we have to spare...

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Punishment Park (1971) Directed by Peter Watkins

Doors at 7:00 PM, Screening at 7:30 PM

@ The Mini Microcinema - 1329 Main St.

Punishment Park, Peter Watkins’ only  film made in the U.S., is a protest against American imperialism. It follows a group of activists who have been unlawfully arrested by Nixon’s government on suspicion of inciting insurrection. After a trial in the desert, they choose between decades of imprisonment or total freedom if they are willing to try their luck in a deadly training exercise against rookie cops in aviator shades. The brutality that is unleashed seems ridiculously implausible until you realize that many of the film’s premises along with its iconic images of unaccountable officers standing astride huddled prisoners, found realization at Guantánamo Bay over 30 years later in conjunction with the politics of today. Peter Watkins’ films present pacifist and radical ideas in a nontraditional style. As a pioneer of the docudrama technique, he invariably employs location sets, natural sound, handheld cameras and almost exclusively non-actors. Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. 

Free with $5 suggested donation.