Existo
Saturday
Jan 8@ 10:00pm
Lumiere* (second showing
Wednesday Jan 12 @ 5:15pm Lumiere )
Coke
Sams
(1998,
35mm, 94min)
sponsored by Lost Weekend Videos
The
future: Jesse Helms and Bob Dornan are revered as gods, morality is state-mandated,
and creativity is repressed. And a rag tag band of art revolutionaries,
led by performance artist Existo, wage a guerrilla war for perversity,
expression, drugs, and the American Way. Existo (Bruce Arntson): performer,
entertainer, propagandist, "most dangerous man in America,"and
the chosen one who can lead his people to the promised land of chaos and
revolution--with his face in the soup and a song in his heart. Revolutionary
headquarters: "The Sewer"--an undergound nightclub. Existo's
apostles are artists, queers, club kids, and leftists--the disenfranchised,
the eccentric, and the truly insane. Their weapon against repression:
Art. Existo's nemesis: Dr. Armand Glasscock (Mike Montgomery), his rise
to supreme power through televangelism brings ever closer the elimination
of America's "art menace." His only stumbling block is Existo--whose
perverse sense of rhythm, politics, and performance art have engaged a
growing segment of the population. The good doctor's conclusion: Existo
must be stopped. EXISTO: A subversive musical comedy about love, art,
and anarchy.
--Kathleen P. Skillicorn
In Attendance director Coke Sams, producer Clark Gallivan, co-writer/composer/star Bruce Arnston
Contact Clarke Gallivan, Hometown productions, 4610 Charlotte Ave., Nashville, TN 37209 justclarke@earthlink.net 615.298.5818 ext 139
Animation
Descent
Kevin
Souls
(1999, 35mm, 3:40 min)
Contact
Kevin Souls,
USC,
438 1/2 Borth Curson Ave.,
Los Angeles, CA 90036 souls1@mindspring.com 323.653.0431
*After Party at Edinburgh Castle 950 Geary St at Polk. Come have a drink with the Existo cast and crew!