This week at MBC: A Music Conference "Cine-Kink": GARTEL, & South Beach ANIMATION Fest!‏

This week at MBC:
"Cine-Kink" GARTEL
Electronica Erotica 1979-2009
AN EVENING WITH THE FATHER OF DIGITAL ART

© GARTEL The Art of Fetish

PLUS...

The South Beach International ANIMATION Festival

with special guests John Canemaker and Bill Plympton!

Two Academy Award winning animators will be honored guests at this year's South Beach International Animation Festival, from April 26-29. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from these legends up close and personal! Details below and at www.southbeachanimationfest.com



M I A M I B E A C H C I N E M A T H E Q U E

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Pick up a MIAMI SUNPOST this week!

MBC is subject of the cover story by Omar Sommereyns

"...Attending a screening at the Cinematheque is like finding your comfort zone and settling in for a relaxing, congenial, and perhaps even edifying two-hour evening with a coterie of like-minded people. The space is elegant, somewhat understated, and always welcoming. It is the antidote to South Beach's intellectual vacuity and a haven for devoted cinephiles. But quiet simply, it is just a great place to watch any movie, or to discover more experimental and off-the-radar films...".



MARCH & early APRIL 2009 at a Glance:

25: "Cine-Kink": "GARTEL; Electronica Erotica 1979-2009"

05: South Beach Animation Festival with animators Bill Plympton and John Canemaker

31: High-Def HITCH: Psycho

April 01, 03, 04: Cine-THEATRE: Hughie starring David Tawil

April 02: High-Def HITCH: The Birds

April 03 & 04: Medicine For Melancholy

April 05 & 06: Dog Eat Dog



MBC March Photography exhibition:

“GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”

Legendary digital art and photography pioneer Laurence GARTEL, "The father of digital art”, has exhibited work around the world for over 30 years in such institutions as MoMa, the Whitney Payson Museum, the Smithsonian Institute's Museum of American History. Alongside colleagues and fellow pioneers Keith Haring, Nam June Paik, Andy Warhol, (who Gartel taught how to use the now vintage Amiga Computer), and Robert Mapplethorpe (who he exhibited with in 1982), Gartel was instrumental in capturing America's cultural fascinations in digital format, for the first time ever (illustrated, for example, in the first ever digital photograph for the Absolut vodka campaign, ABSOLUT GARTEL, circa 1991). MBC pays tribute to GARTEL in March, with an exhibition of his work focusing on his theme of erotica throughout his career, “Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, which will be highlighted by an evening of his digital films for the second installment of the MBC series “Cine-Kink” on Wednesday, March 25, with “interactive activities included”. In the meantime, experience his vintage unconventional digital works on paper at MBC from March 05-March 31.





25 WED 8:30pm:

A Music Conference “Cine-Kink”

An MBC series for mature audiences (only).

GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009



MBC's “Cine-Kink” night, the semi-monthly tribute to the artistic side of kinky subjects,

brings you "GARTEL: Electronica Erotica 1979-2009”, erotic works set to electronic music by the "Father of Digital Art” Laurence Gartel. Join us for a screening of Gartel's multimedia video/animation works along with the March MBC exhibition of “Electronica Erotica” works

on paper, as well as a book and dvd signing. Gartel's digital films will be paired with the showcase of early nudes made with crude analog computer systems from the 1970s until today. His theme of fetish and erotica has been a thread through much of his life's work. The visceral energy and impact of voltage control over color, form, and content makes GARTEL a "genuine original article" moving the world into the Electronic Art aesthetic, all set to electronic music for Miami Music Conference!

Also included in your GARTEL experience is a live “Hooded DJ On A Leash” performance, interactive “Saran Wrapping”, and much more!

Be prepared if you wish to play! Got Fetish-Wear?

Your MBC Ticket is good for 25% off wine tasting. . .

at CAVAS Wines! (across the street at 437 Española Way)

$12 and $10 for (kinky) MBC Members

For tickets click HERE



South Beach Animation Festival (March 26-29)

With visiting animation legends JOHN CANEMAKER

and BILL PLYMPTON!

Idiots and Angels screens Sunday!

26 THU:

6:30pm:

SBIAF OPENING RECEPTION!

8:30pm:

INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION OF SHORTS

Poland, Turkey, Cuba, Spain, Canada are just a few of the countries animators have sent their films from. We live in the same world, but do we see it the same way? Come see our world

from their eyes.

10pm: RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS



27 FRI:

7pm: OTTOWA INT. ANIMATION FESTIVAL

Is billed as the largest animation festival in North America and our very good friends.

8pm:

MUSIC VIDEO and TUNE THE BLUES

10pm:

RED LIGHTS BLUE TOONS

Foul mouth, sexy stories of blow up dolls and dirty jokes??? What's not to like!?

Perfect Land, Ex-Ergo, Great Dates In History, A Night with Nixon, Berni's Doll,

Transrexia, and more! And. . .SCARY AND SILLY POLITICS, SO WHAT'S NEW?

Getting Out, Bye-Bye-Bin Laden, and more!





28 SAT:

11am:

THE IMPORTANCE OF MUSIC TO FILM

Jamie Cardona from Music Ala Carte presents a workshop where you will learn how to get the best music for your film while keeping your budget tight.

1pm:

CONCEPT TO CREATION

So you have an idea for this great character with all these neat ideas that he/she could be saying running around your head. But now what? Jesus is a working animator with a project heading

for THE GREEN LIGHT. Come and learn what it takes to get your idea from your head to the paper and onto the screen by someone that's been there.

3pm:

JOHN CANEMAKER will be signing some of his best books. Meet one of the world foremost directors and most knowledgeable historians in animation!



7:30pm:

THE ART OF THE MESSAGE IS THE MEDIUM

This unique collections of films brings a creative twist as they deliver their message that

the ABILITIED are not the handicapped. The Plastic Perils of the Pacific, Life On A

Limb, A Day at the Beach, The Old Sap, The Bicycle Lesson, and more!

8:30pm: COMEDY of POLITICS

10pm: SBIAF COMEDY HOUR



29 SUN:

10:30am: ABSTRACT ANIMATION DISCUSSION/SCREENING

With Prof. Allergro of University Of Miami Faculty


2pm: JOHN CANEMAKER: MARCHING TO A DIFFERENT TOON

A Showcase of Animation Films By Director John Canemaker


4pm: IDIOTS AND ANGELS (2008)

A new animated feature by Bill Plympton. Idiots and Angels a dark comedy about a man's battle for his soul. Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out at his local

bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to

rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune. Mature Audience Suggested.

For South Beach Animation Festival tickets click HERE



31 TUE

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Psycho

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1960)

With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam



In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was perhaps the best-known film director in the world, when he released Psycho and forever changed the shape and tone of the screen thriller. From

its first scene, in which an unmarried couple balances pleasure and guilt in a lunchtime liaison in

a cheap hotel (hardly a common moment in a major studio film in 1960), Psycho announced

that it was taking the audience to places it had never been before, and on that score what followed would hardly disappoint. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) is unhappy in her job. Impulse takes over and Marion takes off with the company cash, and stops for the night at the Bates Motel, where innkeeper Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) cheerfully mentions that she's the first guest in weeks. “There's hardly a film fan alive who doesn't know what happens next”

-Starpulse

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it."-Alfred Hitchcock

For tickets click HERE



April 01 WED 8:30pm,

& 04 SAT & 05 SUN 5pm:

“Cine-THEATRE”

Eugene O'Neill's HUGHIE

A One-Act (one hour) play including cinematic supplements!

Starring David Tawil

Also featuring Mark Kroczynski / Directed by Aaron Gonzalez



Multi-Pulitzer Prize winning Playwright Eugene O'Neill wrote the one act play Hughie in 1940, set in the year 1929. . .two years that resound loudly in American history. Hughie is about the American psyche in periods of economic and emotional distress, which is why 2009 is a perfect year to reflect on our current conditions and where they slide into perspective. Small-time gambler Erie Smith lives in a seedy New York hotel, and Hughie, the hotel's clerk is a captive audience for Erie's regular ranting and tall tales. Erie comes home from a night of grief-stricken drinking because Hughie has died. Will there ever be a companionship replacement for one loner seeking solace in another?

$15 or $12 MBC Members/Seniors/Students

For tickets click HERE



April 02 THU 8:30pm:

“High-Def HITCH!”

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

The Birds

(Directed by Alfred Hitchcock/1964)

With Tippi Hedren, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy



The story begins as an innocuous romantic triangle involving wealthy, spoiled Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren), handsome Mitch Brenner (Rod Taylor), and schoolteacher Annie Hayworth (Suzanne Pleshette). The human story begins in a San Francisco pet shop and culminates at the home of Mitch's mother (Jessica Tandy) at Bodega Bay, where the characters' sense of security

is slowly eroded by the curious behavior of birds in the area. At first, it's no more than a sea gull swooping down and pecking at Melanie's head. Things take a truly ugly turn when hundreds of birds converge on a children's party. “The birds have run amok, and once the onslaught begins, there's virtually no letup.”

"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."-Alfred Hitchcock

"Hitch was all about the chase with his blondes. I don't think he ever wanted to-

how will I say? - culminate the chase." -Tippi Hedren

For tickets click HERE



“High-Def HITCH!” continues all April, with the MBC HITCHCOCK GRAPHICS exhibition March 31-April 30!



APR 02 THU 8:30pm: The Birds

APR 09 THU 8:30pm: Torn Curtain

APR 21 TUE 8:30pm: Topaz

APR 30 THU 8:30pm: Frenzy



03 FRI, 04 SAT

7pm & 8:45pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Medicine For Melancholy

Directed by Barry Jenkins

With Wyatt Cenac, Tracey Heggins



A love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-something's dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco-a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.

WINNER: Special Jury Prize Sarasota Film Festival

Independent Spirit Award and Someone To Watch award nominee

“Barry Jenkins' terrific debut feature, Medicine for Melancholy, is an intimate and sociologically astute study of a young African-American couple...remarkable...bold, insightful movie.”-Michael Fox, SF Weekly

“EXCELLENT, SURPRISING, and SUBTLE...remind yourself, your roommates, your friends and family to see Medicine For Melancholy.”-D. Scot Miller, SF Guardian

For tickets click HERE





05 SUN, 06 MON

7pm & 9pm:

An MBC Premiere HD DIGITAL Presentation!

In collaboration with Emerging Pictures

Miami HD Theatrical Premiere!

Dog Eat Dog (Perro come perro)

Directed by Carlos Moreno/Colombia/2008

With Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda



Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution is Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film. El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job, but makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?

WINNER: Gramado Film Festival Best Director, Best Actor, Best Cinematography

Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival Best Actor

Official Selection: Sundance Film Festival, Miami Int. Film Festival

"Dog Eat Dog" is a very funny film, not in the traditional devices of the one-liner and wisecracks, but in a more subtle language of facial expressions. The slow but confident pace, which is engaging and tense, is unusual in a film of its type and gives lie to just how boring the frantic editing of recent thrillers has become.”-Quiet Earth

For tickets click HERE



TICKETS:

FILMS: $10 or $7 MBC Members / Students / Seniors

Cine-Kink: $12 or $10 Members


Parking: 16th St. between Collins and Washington (covered lot)

or 16th St and Drexel Avenue (open lot)

Doors open fifteen minutes before screenings




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