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Friday, December 7, 2007

Film

'A Walk into the Sea' and Danny Williams's Factory Films at Northwest Film Forum

This lovely, melancholy documentary is about Danny Williams, a filmmaker and lighting designer at Andy Warhol's Factory who—sometime after being discarded by his shock-haired impresario of a lover—drove his mother's car to the shore, walked into the water, and never came back. Tonight, Northwest Film Forum will also screen four of Williams's 16mm films and host a question-and-answer session with Esther Robinson, a documentarian and Williams's niece. (NWFF, 1515 12th Ave, 267-5380. Documentary 7 and 9:15 pm, $8.50; Factory films 8 pm, $15.)

ANNIE WAGNER

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Very much looking forward to those 16mm films tonight. Since there's not much info here about them here's what I know:

The program includes Factory Film (1965), which features intimate footage of Warhol along with other factory stars (screened silent); The Velvet Underground and The Velvet Underground Eat Lunch (1965), which features the impossibly young-looking, pre-fame band rehearsing and clowning around (silent); and Harold Stevenson PT 1 and PT 2 (1966), with live accompaniment by Griffin and McRae, who have created a score for guitar, violin, samples and Walkman.

Fashioning an immerse, oceanic abstraction of bubblegum pop, LaMonte Young-inspired drones and, of course, the music of The Velvet Underground, the score takes its cues from modern ambient artists like Tim Hecker and Belong. Griffin and McRae have collaborated on live soundtrack experiments with filmmaker Jem Cohen, theater directors Anne Bogart and Richard Maxwell, and musicians including Vic Chesnutt and Tom Verlaine.

Posted by apttitle | December 7, 2007 11:11 AM

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