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/

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

Presented with No Response Festival

 Join us for a shorts program to supplement the documentary “Completely in the Present.” The specific lineup will be released closer to the screening! Stay tuned.

Free with $5 suggested donation.

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

Presented with No Response Festival

A film about the pioneering life and works of the legendary artist, musician, and educator. 

Sometimes referred to as the Bill Murray of the Avant Garde, Tony Conrad is one the great American artists of our time, yet to the world at large he remains virtually unknown. Since the early 1960s, Conrad’s films and musical compositions have been the stuff of legend. Conrad was an early member of the Velvet Underground; he toured with Sonic Youth in the ’90s; collaborated with contemporary artists such as Tony Oursler and Mike Kelley; and has spent decades re-wiring generations of young minds as a professor and media personality in Buffalo, New York. His vast conceptual multimedia repertoire has challenged the very foundations of art, film and music and questioned entire belief systems. This definitive film will place Tony Conrad’s fifty years of influence at the forefront and explore his profound impact on generations of artists. Combining intimate footage of Tony and his collaborators shot over the last twenty years, his own archive of recordings and films, and interviews with fans and colleagues, the film will reveal not only a playful approach to life and art making but one that is motivated by a deep sense of powerful, political radicalism. 

Free with $5 suggested donation.

Saturday, June 17th, 2017
Doors at 4:30 PM... Screening at 5:00 PM
@ The Mini - 1329 Main St.

2002 (2015) By: C. Spencer Yeh

Co-Presented with the No Response Festival

2002

Dir. C. Spencer Yeh, 2015.

USA, 53 min.

2002 is a "concert film" that collects together footage of approximately forty bands videotaped by artist C. Spencer Yeh during the year 2002, including Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Sightings, Sudden Infant, Cock ESP, Double Leopards, Caroliner Rainbow, Comets on Fire, and more. Acting as a survey, tribute, and foreshadowing of the contemporary American musical underground, 2002 captures not only the artists, but the audiences, spaces, and networks that remain incredibly formative and influential over a decade later.

A handful of the segments were originally posted to Yeh’s personal website, before the coming of YouTube and other media-sharing outlets. The average duration of the edits were kept short due to the storage and bandwidth considerations of that time – a strategy carried over in revisiting the footage years later. In a style similar to Yeh's Hair Police: 01-02, the accustomed musical documentary talking heads, voiceover meditations, and evocative b-roll were eschewed in favor of a more observational "vérité" approach. A loose narrative was already found in the sequencing of these short glimpses during the span of a year – audience members one moment are then found to be the artists on stage in the next. Some venues iconic in their moment are now long gone, while others were revived in recent times, activating a new history.

Special thanks to Electronic Arts Intermix.

C. Spencer Yeh is recognized for his interdisciplinary activities and collaborations as an artist, improviser, and composer, as well his music project Burning Star Core. Recent presentations of work include "Modern Mondays" at MoMA NYC, "Sound Horizon" at the Walker Art Center Minneapolis MN, "Closer to the Edge" in Singapore and "Crossing Over" in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, "Martha Friedman: Some Hags" at the NYU IFA Great Hall NYC, "Ed Atkins: Performance Capture" at the Kitchen NYC, "The Companion" at the Liverpool Biennial, “99 Objects” at the Whitney Museum NYC, the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, "Tony Conrad Tribute" at Atelier Nord/Ultima Festival in Oslo Norway, "Great Tricks From Your Future" at D-CAF in Cairo Egypt, Borderline Festival in Athens Greece, Kinomuzeum at Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw Poland, the Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Music Unlimited in Wels Austria, and LAMPO at the Renaissance Society in Chicago IL. Yeh also collaborated with Triple Canopy for their contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 2014.  He was a 2015 Artist-in-Residence at ISSUE Project Room NYC, and was included in the performance program for Greater New York at MoMA/PS1.

Recent recordings include "Solo Voice I-X" (Primary Information), "Wake Up Awesome," with Okkyung Lee and Lasse Marhaug (Software Recording Company), “Long Pig” by New Monuments, his trio with Ben Hall and Don Dietrich (Bocian), and "Schlager" with Ken Vandermark.

Yeh also volunteers as a programmer and trailer editor for Spectacle Theater, a microcinema in Brooklyn NY. His video works are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix. He is also a contributing editor to Triple Canopy and BOMB magazine, as well as contributing to The Third Rail and Personal Best.

Tuesday, May 16th, 2017
Doors at 7:00... Screening at 7:30
@ The Mini - 1329 Main St.

Borbetomagus: A Pollock of Sound

Directed By: Jef Mertens

Co-Presented with the No Response Festival

A Pollock of Sound is the first-ever feature length documentary film on the legendary improv/noise group Borbetomagus.

From 1979 on, Borbetomagus have persevered a no holds barred musical style, described and boxed by the media so many times that they remain uncategorized. Coming together in upstate NY, far away from the burgeoning NYC scene, they began having a cult status reaching as far as Northeast Asia.  With both saxophone players extending techniques beyond recognition and a guitar player utilizing metal shards besides a plectrum, the band have showcased a whole new vocabulary staying true to the word free.

Guerilla filmmaker Jef Mertens brings a raw, urgent, and unpolished vision focusing on a band that has spent almost four decades defining and redefining not just their music, but the boundaries of music itself. Band members Don Dietrich, Donald Miller, and Jim Sauter tell their story with the help of artists, writers, photographers, and filmmakers that include noted critic Byron Coley, drummer Chris Corsano, guitarist Thurston Moore, groundbreaking Japanese noise unit Hijokaidan, and Switzerland's masters of "cracked electronics," Voice Crack.

With never before seen archival footage, amazing photographic finds and never before released recordings, the film is a must see, or must listen if you will, for every Borbetomagus fan or lover of music that has labored its own definition of what sound should be like.

Borbetomagus devastating attitude gained recognition without compromise and its without those compromises that "A Pollock of Sound" hopes to be striding along.