As
part of its revised roster of activities, the bookstore
(in it NEW
LOCATION) will be celebrating foreign, camp, edgy
and cult films with a regular screening of a movie each
Sunday afternoon at 3pm.
This Sunday's choice is 'Random Lunacy'.
"Poppa Neutrino has all the characteristics of a
man who could have built a fortune," asserts The
New Yorker's Alec Wilkinson, who is featured in RANDOM
LUNACY. Yet the radically itinerant Neutrino's belief
that "rent is the thing that beats us," caused
him instead to choose a homeless existence for himself
and his family.
Unencumbered by possessions, save for a video camera
kept rolling since the 80's, he led his "tribe"
on a quest for pure freedom and adventure.
"Some people are nomadic by nature," claims
his wife, Betsy. The self-taught family band called THE
FLYING NEUTRINOS was literally singing for its supper
as it roamed the world, while Poppa's camera recorded
first-hand a life of sleeping in cars, trucks, and on
remote beaches, as well as the family's time spent traveling
with a Mexican circus. The rafts they built from street
scraps, which they then would live aboard, exemplified
their consummate ingenuity. Eventually one such vessel
was pitted against the Atlantic Ocean.
Captured on tape -- an astonishing portrait of survival
outside of conventional society, in a self-created universe
with a value system all its own.
RANDOM LUNACY casts a searching gaze on what it means
to be marginalized, while at the same time examining what
our choices have to do with our ultimate freedom.
Navajoland Synopsis
Navajoland is the result of the friendship between Travis
Terry, a Native American Fluteplayer, and myself.
I lived in Chinle, Arizona, in the Heart of Navajoland
for seven years, from 1995 to 2002. It was during that
time that I met Travis Terry. What brought us together
was a common love for the landscape of Navajoland and
for the inspiration that it gives us, me with photography
and Travis with music.
In 2005 I created a Portfolio of my 25 favorite photographs
from Navajoland. I selected photographs which depicted
the variety of locations, landscapes and subjects found
in Navajoland, from the vastness of Monument Valley to
the more intimate landscape of Canyon de Chelly, the mystery
of Anasazi ruins, the rock art and the heritage of Navajo
culture as depicted in the many Hogans --the traditional
Navajo dwelling-- that are found in Navajoland.
When I created my portfolio, I chose photographs which
depicted the land throughout the seasons: summer, winter,
spring and fall. I also chose photographs which depicted
the beauty of a sunny day, the morning after a winter
snowstorm, a dramatic spring thunderstorm, a cloud-filled
sky, a blazing sunset, and a multitude of other natural
phenomena unique to Navajoland.
In this photographic portfolio, titled Navajoland, I included
Travis first CD -- Echoes of the Canyon Walls-- because
for me Travis music was part of the landscape depicted
in my images, part of the landscape of Navajoland. In
late 2005, I decided to create a DVD featuring a slide
show of the photographs selected for the Navajoland Portfolio.
It was at this time that Travis offered to create music
specifically for this DVD. As the project evolved, and
as the day we set aside for recording the music drew near,
Travis asked me for the titles of the musical compositions
that would be featured on the DVD.
At first I wasn t sure what those titles would be since
I did not know I would be the one writing them. As I worked
on titles, I realized that these titles had to be related
to my photographs. I therefore wrote nine titles which
were inspired by my photographs.
We recorded Travis music at Canyon Records in Phoenix.
I was amazed at how well Travis music matched my vision
for a musical interpretation of each photograph. It was
at that time that Cara, Travis wife, suggested that we
make not only a CD DVD but also a DVD.
Alain Briot
Coffee, tea and popcorn are provided.
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