MAY 2016
2640docs & MicroCIneFest present Jeff Krulik Documentary Night
featuring the 30th anniversary screening of “Heavy Metal Parking Lot” and Led Zeppelin Played Here (2014)
Directors John Heyn and Jeff Krulik’s underground cult classic/video time capsule, “Heavy Metal Parking Lot,” captures Judas Priest fans as they tailgate the parking lot of the since-demolished Capital Centre in May 1986.
Did Led Zeppelin really perform in the gym of the Wheaton Youth Center in front of 50 confused teenagers in 1969? Krulik's Led Zeppelin Played Here attempts to find out while presenting a Mid-Atlantic version of what was happening nationwide as the rock concert industry took shape. Featuring interviews with rock critics, musicians, and fans—including several who claim they were witness to history that night.
Jeff Krulik is an independent documentarian and cultural preservationist who has built a distinct career tapping into the local culture of the DC/Maryland region. In 1996, the Washington Post noted that his films “demonstrate a loving eye for Americana and eccentricity.” His archives have recently been donated to the University of Maryland College Park and an exhibit celebrating Heavy Metal Parking Lot opens at the Hornbake Library on May 27.
MicroCineFest, Baltimore's longtime purveyor of underground, off-beat, psychotronic film, comes out of hibernation to co-present this special screening with 2640docs. MicroCineFest first introduced Baltimore to "Heavy Metal Parking Lot in 1997, and went on to bring Jeff Krulik and his films to town many more times in the following years.
Doors at 7pm. Films start at 7:30. A Q&A with Jeff Krulik will follow.
$5 suggested donation to benefit Sickies Making Films. Refreshments available.
2640 Space | 2640 St. Paul Street (St. John’s Church)
Led Zeppelin Played Here | 2014 | 90 mins
“Heavy Metal Parking Lot” | 1986 | 17 mins
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JULY 2008 APRIL 2008 DECEMBER 2007 OCTOBER 2007 SEPTEMBER 2007 Roger Beebe is a professor of film and media studies at
the University of Florida. His work has been shown around the globe at
such unlikely venues as McMurdo Station in Antarctica and the CBS Jumbotron
in Times Square, and at more likely ones such as the Museum of Modern
Art and the Pacific Film Archive, as well as at countless festivals including
Ann Arbor, Baltimore's MicroCineFest, NY Underground, the Images Festival,
EMAF (the European Media Arts Festival), and Rotterdam. From 1997-2000
he ran Flicker, a bi-monthly festival of small guage film in Chapel Hill,
NC, and he is currently artistic director of FLEX, the FLorida Experimental
Film/Video Festival. With a documentary sensibility and a photographic
eye, he brings humor and soul to subjects from women in the Air Force
during WWII, to where Shaquille O'Neal got his last name. Roger Beebe is no stranger to the MicroCineFest audience,
having screened seven of his films at MicroCineFest over the years, including
S A V E and (rock/hard place) (MCF 2006),
One Nation Under Tommy (MCF 2005), Famous Irish Americans
(MCF 2003), Composition In Red & Yellow (MCF 2002 Small
Guage Award), Strip Mall Trilogy (MCF 2001 Way Cool Super8
Film Award), and What Boys Want (MCF 2000 Way Cool Use Of
A Lite-Brite Award). MicroCineFest is proud to continue the tradition of inaugurating
new Creative Alliance screening spaces, by bringing Beebe to town for
a screening in the new CAmm Media Lab, followed by Beebe's No Camera
Required workshop the next day (Sunday, September 9). For more information: http://creativealliance.org/events/eventitem1149.html
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/rogerbb/films/fall07tour.html
NOVEMBER 2006 JUNE 2006 NOVEMBER 2005 NOVEMBER 2004 JULY 2003 An evening of award-winners and crowd pleasers from last Fall's festival. Always
a good time! Dr. Dremo's Taphouse (2001 Clarendon Blvd in Arlington, Virginia,
22201), Admission is free, but a $2.00 donation will get you a door prize ticket
to win some cool stuff! APRIL 2003 An evening of award-winners and crowd pleasers from last Fall's festival. Hosted
by festival director, Skizz Cyzyk, and some of the filmmakers. Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherd
College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. (free admission) JANUARY 2003: Russ Forster's TRIBUTARY TRIBUTARY offers a glimpse inside the bizarre yet quintessentially
American pop music subculture of "tribute bands" - bands which imitate
other popular bands. Award-winning director Russ Forster (SO WRONG THEY'RE RIGHT,
8-Track Mind Magazine) gets band members and fans to explain the allure of imitation.
Featured bands include SABBRACADABRA (a Black Sabbath clone from New York),
MONGOLOID (a Devo outfit from San Francisco), CHERRY BOMB (a Runaways sound-alike
from Portland, OR), and ACES HIGH (a tribute to Kiss' Ace Frehley from Detroit,
MI). Alternately hilarious and poignant, TRIBUTARY is a study of pop music as
an art form in flux, looking back to where it has gone before to seek clues
about where it should go next. Friday, January 31, 7pm, free admission!!!, at the
Ottobar (upstairs lounge), 2549 N. Howard Street, 410-662-0069 OCTOBER 2002: Bill Daniels and Venessa Renwick bring their Lucky Bum Film Tour to Baltimore. JULY 2002: July 19 LETHAL FORCE and selected MicroCineFest shorts LETHAL FORCE was a hit at MicroCineFest
2001, winning both the Grand Jury Award and Audience Choice Award for Best Feature
Film. If you missed it, here's another chance to catch it so you can say you
saw it before the rest of the world catches on. What is it? A low-budget, high-action,
B-Movie feature full of over-the-top dialogue & violent humor, shot in and
around Baltimore and Washington, DC! Fans, and even non-fans, of Hong Kong action
gangster films have been laughing themselves silly over this film that must
be seen to be believed. Director Alvin Ecarma in person!!! Also showing - a handfull of shorts from previous years of MicroCineFest: Friday, July 19, 8pm, $5, at the Creative
Alliance, 413 S. Conkling Street (in Highlandtown) JUNE 2002: The June 2002 issue of Baltimore Magazine has listed MicroCineFest
as one of Baltimore's "Secrets
Of The City: 95 lesser-known places to be entertained and amused".
MicroCineFest is #80. The cat's out of the bag now. MARCH 2002: March 7 a Peripheral Produce
north american film tour: Portland's MATT MCCORMICK and JOHNNE ESCHLEMAN pack up the van and hit the
road to show movies and see some sights. Matt McCormick is a 29-year-old filmmaker who combines original and found footage
into short, poignant collages. His film "The Johnne Eschleman is a mobile experiment in spontaneous cinema. Often joined
by fellow musicians and artists, Johnne projects hand-made Both artists are founding members of Peripheral Produce, a Portland based film
collective that has gained international attention for its guerilla Thursday, March 7, 8pm, $5, at Mission
Space, 338 North Charles Street (between Mulberry & Saratoga) FEBRUARY 2002: Monday, February 25 Thursday, February 28 PART ONE - 7 PM: Selected short films by Cheryl Fair, Kristen
Anchor, Craig Smith and Skizz Cyzyk. PART TWO - 8 PM: "The Very Best of Baltimore's MicroCineFest" Frank Center for the Creative Arts, Shepherd
College in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. (free admission) JANUARY 2002: ATTENTION SUNDANCE/SLAMDANCE ATTENDEES: MicroCineFest in Park
City, Utah The Reel Roundtable presents a
"Best Of MicroCineFest" program during Park City's annual film festival
fiasco week. Come watch a handful of off-the-wall Tuesday, January 15 at 5 PM NOVEMBER 2001: MicroCineFest presents Jim Stramel's 16mm feature, THE THRILLBILLYS October 31 thru November 4, 2001 APRIL 2001: MicroCineFest, in conjunction with the Johns
Hopkins Film Festival, presents... GOD MADE MAN (dir. Crazy Pete) THE HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT 15th ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM (dir.
Heyn & Krulik) MARCH 2001: MicroCineFest presents The Hi Mom! Film Festival touring
"best of" program Wednesday, March 28th, 8 PM. $5 The Hi Mom! Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC's answer to MicroCineFest, is coming
to Baltimore. Hi Mom! organizers, Kendra Gaeta and Michael Connor will be on
hand to present their touring "best of" program, highlighting film & video makers
working outside the realm of genre. Plus they will be providing pancakes in
the shape of your initials! www.himomfilmfestival.org FEBRUARY 2001: Two Out-Of-Town "Best Of MicroCineFest" screenings: Saturday, February 10, 8 PM, $5 Tuesday, February 20, 8 PM. $2 donation A sampling of some of the finest, low-budget, off-beat, short films and videos,
culled from the first 4 years of MicroCineFest. Plus door prizes! MicroCineFest returns to the Washington Psychotronic Film Society on Tuesday,
February 27 at 8 PM, to host a screening of the MicroCineFest 2000 hit feature,
RADIO FREE STEVE.
Saturday, November 20, 7 PM -
The Wind Up Space presents...
Thursday, July 31, 6 PM -
The Wind Up Space presents...
Wednesday, April 9
A Best of MicroCineFest
Indie Memphis and Delta Axis present "The Best of MicroCineFest" -- 7:30 pm, Wed. April 9 @ Power House Memphis (45 G.E. Patterson). Free and open to the public!
Saturday, December 8
A Best of MicroCineFest
A 90 minute sampling from ten years
of award winners, crowd pleasers, and staff favorites.
Festival Director, Skizz Cyzyk, will be there to introduce the program and answer
any questions.
8 PM, $5. The Laughing Skull Lounge at
The Vortex Midtown
878 Peachtree Street (between 7th & 8th Streets), Atlanta, GA 30309, 404-875-1667
http://www.thevortexbarandgrill.com/
Friday, October 12, 3:30 PM -
The BendFilm Festival in Bend, Oregon presents...
A
Best of MicroCineFest
A 90 minute sampling from ten
years of award winners, crowd pleasers, and staff favorites.
Festival Director, Skizz Cyzyk, will be there to introduce the program and answer
any questions.
Saturday, September 8 - MicroCineFest and Creative Alliance
present...
NEW MAPS OF THE NEW WORLD: Films & Videos by Roger Warren Beebe
8 pm at Creative
Alliance (3134 Eastern Avenue), $8, $6 members. Free popcorn!
November 9-12 at The G-Spot. CLICK
HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS
Tuesday June 27 - The Washington
Psychotronic Film Society presents "Selections From MicroCineFest"
Dr. Dremo's Taphouse, Arlington, VA. 8
PM. $2 suggested donation.
Friday, November 11 through Sunday, November 23
MicroCineFest 2005 CLICK
HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS
Friday, November 19 through Sunday, November 21
MicroCineFest 2004 CLICK
HERE FOR COMPLETE DETAILS
Tuesday, July 22, 8 PM POSTPONED
UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society
welcomes MicroCineFest back to our nation's capitol for...
"The Best of MicroCineFest 2002"
Monday, April 14
Frederick, Maryland's Blue Elephant Art Center and The Shepherd College Of Art
Alliance present..
"The Best of MicroCineFest 2002"
Friday, January 31
MicroCineFest and The Ottobar present...
Director Russ Forster will be present to discuss TRIBUTARY.
(Then head downstairs after the film for THE OTTOBAR TRIBUTE TO THE CLASH- with
Pulaski, Landspeedrecord, members of LHKBND and Buttsteak, The Jennifers, Radiation
Puppy, X Ero X, The Clampdown Singers, The Tipping Point and Circle 9 - all
playing music by The Clash!)
READ ABOUT IT IN THE
CITY PAPER
CAmm (Creative Alliance Movie Makers) & MicroCineFest present...
LIMBOSCAPE - Tim Finn
PHASES - Marcus Young
ANARCHY MONKEY - Alex Roper
FIRE ANT AD - Andrew Wardlaw
TANGERINE CROWS (Slow Jets music video) - Joseph Christopher Schaub
THE INFERNAL LOOP - Cooper Black
REVOLUTIONS PER MINUTE - Alex Roper
STATE OF THE UNION - Bryan Boyce
and more!!!
READ ABOUT IT IN THE
CITY PAPER
MicroCineFest welcomes to Baltimore...
the short films and projector performances of
Matt McCormick and Johnne Eschleman
Matt's films combine found and original sounds and images to fashion abstract
and witty observations of contemporary culture. Johnne
(aka the distance formula and/or the traveling cinema) deconstructs thrift store
home movies one frame at a time and rebuilds them into
moody time-based performed installations. Both will be collaborating on new,
site-specific pieces that will be unique to each screening
event
Subconscious Art of Graffiti Removal", an experimental documentary, is a keen
observation of how the process of destroying one art
unwittingly creates another, and was an official selection of the 2002 Sundance
Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Best Documentary
Short Video award at MicroCineFest 2001. "The Vyrotonin Decision," is a found
footage disaster spoof that was awarded the Best
Experimental Film at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals.
Other films of Matt's which have been receiving
attention include "Sincerely, Joe P Bear"- a sad love-letter from a heartbroken
polar bear which screened at the Rotterdam International
Film Festival and won the Grand Jury Best Experimental Film award at MicroCineFest
2000; and his brand new abstract short "Going to
the Ocean" which just premiered at the New York Film Festival at the Lincoln
Center in October of 2001.
films while performing a live soundtrack, creating an ever-changing and intimate
viewing experience. He recently toured the US with his
performance-installation piece The Traveling Cinema, and has presented his work
at the Chicago Contemporary Art Museum, PS 1 in New York,
the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and many other prestigious venues
around the country. His recent film "The Read Letters" is a movie
in which two 16mm projectors roll simultaniously, projecting images side by
side of bleached found footage and text which has been hand
scratched directly into each frame of the film. Johnne accompanies the images
with a soundtrack he is performing live using electronic keyboards
and a xylophone.
style screening events and videotape distribution projects.
Two out-of-town "Best Of
MicroCineFest" programs:
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society welcomes
MicroCineFest back to our nation's capitol.
at The Black Cat 1811 14th St. NW,
Washington, DC
Frederick, Maryland's Blue Elephant Art Center and The Shepherd College Of Art
Alliance present
"An Evening Of Underground Film In Two Parts"
All four filmmakers will be on hand for discussion.
shorts and the award winning feature, LETHAL FORCE on a 52 inch video screen!
in the iLounge (268 Main Street, directly across the street from the Treasure
Mountain Inn, in the same building as the Morning Ray)
Dodger Cole walks out of jail into a changed world. The Virginia hills where
she once raced and ran bootleg whiskey have become overrun with convenience
stores and giant sized mega marts. She wants only to gather her brother and
move on to someplace better, but when she sees the family still bulldozed to
make way for yet another Super-Great Mart she vows to take back the South and
send the modern day carpetbaggers to hell! A new 16mm feature from Jim Stramel
(My Ass Is Bleeding, Pitiful Reflections - MCF'99).
Wednesday, November 14, 8pm, $5, at Mission
Space, 338 North Charles Street (between Mulberry & Saratoga)
MicroCineFest 2001
The hit of MicroCineFest 2000 (it won the Grand Jury Award for Best Feature)
returns to Baltimore. It's twisted, hysterical, sometimes embarrassing, and
will altogether leave you scratching your head. A must see! Director Crazy Pete
will be here in person, thanks to the sponsorship of the Maryland
Film Festival.
Saturday, April 14th at Midnight, in JHU's Shriver Hall. FREE!!!
Sunday, April 15 at 6 PM, in MICA's Station Building 3. FREE!!!
In 1986, John Heyn & Jeff Krulik
interviewed metalheads in the parking lot of Maryland's Capitol Center (now
the US Air Arena) before a Judas Priest / Dokken concert. That video became
the legendary, underground, cult film sensation, HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT (and
the hit of MicroCineFest 97). For it's 15th Anniversary, Heyn & Krulik have
put together this program that includes all of the sequels (NEIL DIAMOND PARKING
LOT, HARRY POTTER PARKING LOT, RAVER BATHROOM, etc), parodies (an American Hi
Fi music video), and more.
Friday, April 13 at 7:15 PM, in MICA's Station Building 3. $3
Sunday, April 15 at 8 PM, in JHU's Mudd Auditorium. $3
at Mission Media - Mission Space
338 North Charles Street 410-752-8950
The program will include animated bests, narrative feats of accomplishment,
computer generated cityscapes, and thought provoking ditties. Some nominated
for international awards, some under-recognized gems, all in one place & for
your eyes only. Plus pancakes!!!
www.microcinefest.org
www.missionmediainc.com
The Blue Elephant Arts Center
4A West Fifth Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701
The Washington Psychotronic Film Society
at The Lucky Bar
1221 Connecicut Ave. (between M and N St. NW, south of Dupont Circle).