JAMES OTIS: PROGRAM A (16mm w/Q&A)
Spanning from 1979 to the cusp of the new millennium—though not in strict chronological order—this program comprises nine films that run the gamut of most things Otis films are about: pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic experiments, handmade abstract “cone” work, and CGI the likes of which you haven’t seen before and are very likely to never see anywhere else. The program’s title, taken from a “friend of a friend upon viewing TRIPTYCH,” demonstrates both Otis’ wild wit and quiet humility. (And by the way, he’s been happily married for the last 35 years.) The program also features a world premiere (THE LAST BITE) and kicking things off is a film that Stan Brakhage declared “one of the ten most perfect films in the history of cinema” (JACOBS’ LADDER).
Full lineup and notes: spectacletheater.com/otis
Spanning from 1979 to the cusp of the new millennium—though not in strict chronological order—this program comprises nine films that run the gamut of most things Otis films are about: pseudo-hyper-stereoscopic experiments, handmade abstract “cone” work, and CGI the likes of which you haven’t seen before and are very likely to never see anywhere else. The program’s title, taken from a “friend of a friend upon viewing TRIPTYCH,” demonstrates both Otis’ wild wit and quiet humility. (And by the way, he’s been happily married for the last 35 years.) The program also features a world premiere (THE LAST BITE) and kicking things off is a film that Stan Brakhage declared “one of the ten most perfect films in the history of cinema” (JACOBS’ LADDER).
Full lineup and notes: spectacletheater.com/otis
