Other Cinema presents

Doug Harvey's 'patacritical Interrogation Techniques

Art of the Ridiculous

When
Sat Apr 6, 2013
Where
Artists' for Television Access (ATA)
Time
8:30pm
Cost
$6.66
Tags
Movies, Other Film, Literary Arts, Author Appearances

Description

On Saturday, April 6, ATA Gallery’s flagship screening series, Other Cinema, celebrates the second in our Secret Agents suite. LA Weekly critic Doug Harvey zooms in with a book-launch—in fact a party—to celebrate his anthology of sublimely ridiculous rants and paranoid analyses, 'patacritical Interrogation Techniques Anthology, Volume 3.

His crackpot-genius 'pITA3 compendium gleefully crosses conspiracy theory with avant-garde literature. Doug’s readings address absurd art pranks and mistranslations: Jean Averty’s Ubu Roi, Turkish Star Wars, Benny Lava’s mis-subtitled music videos, a Scientology workprint (!), and Craig Baldwin’s Tribulation 99 (16mm excerpt).

PLUS an inquiry into the “Rock Books” of über-fabulist Richard Shaver, detailing the Alphabet of the Ancients. Free beer.

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http://www.othercinema.com/
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Location

  1. Artists' for Television Access (ATA)
    992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA