Benefit for the San Francisco branch of The Icarus Project

SF Icarus Project
9pm
March 9th 2007 Friday
ElRio
3158 Mission St (@ Cesar Chavez),
San Francisco, CA 94110.
(415) 282-3325

Live Music, spoken word, film showing 9pm 6+
rear room show

Ibéria is an hour-long, hybrid-genre film whose main ingredients are esoterica, poetry, ethnic pastiche, and camp humor. An atmosphere of paranoid desire builds on the cusp of some demise; a fictional totalitarian empire goes under. The film opens with a non-sequitur and presents itself as the visual fragments of a spiritual journey made by an inept prophet through foreign lands he perceives as the Iberian peninsula. The logic of the sequences that follow is, however, created out of their own over-the-top yet sometimes documentary content. Occasionally ominous and at other moments slapstick, Ibéria forms an exotic landscape out of familiar Bay Area locations and peppers it with deluded aristocrats, unusual ritual celebrants, and improvisationally joyous dancers, introducing the viewer to an alternative world of exotic customs.

Emcee: Machiko Saito, international actress, filmmaker, and performance artist

Readers: Ruth Weiss(beat Poet) & Winston Tong
Winston is an Obie winner most known in the Bay Area as one of the progenitors of the experimental punk band Tuxedomoon.
http://winstontong.sevcom.com/

Band: Ghost of Curtis. GOC covers songs by the band Joy Division, which was fronted by Ian Curtis until his suicide in the early 80’s.
http://www.myspace.com/theghostofcurtis

This is a benefit for the San Francisco branch of The Icarus Project,
www.theicarusproject.net