San Felipe, Baja, Mexico
The San Felipe Title Company
Coming This Sunday - December 7th, 2008, 3PM
'Random Lunacy' - 2007
'Navajoland' - 2006

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.