From: artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu (Artist # 1)
Subject: "WAX" in San Francisco (Help!) + other playdates
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 20:19:29 GMT

This is an alt.artcom type of movie, so here's the post:

A request for HELP here, 
 
as well as the bi-monthly posting of where my film is playing, in
case you want to catch it.
 
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"WAX or the discovery of television among the bees" (85:00) 
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WAX opened on Friday (Jan. 1st) at the Roxie Theatre in San
Francisco. Due to a negative synergy apparently common the last
several months between the papers and the houses that show
independent films, there were NO REVIEWS for the opening, as far
as I know. So if you live in San Francisco, and have any
familiarity with the film, could you please mention it to people
you know. As luck would have it, there was at least a really good
writeup by Richard Kadrey in the winter Whole Earth Review (RK
also wrote a review in Mondo back in August)... but it is really
word of mouth which will save this run. 
 
The number at the Roxie is : (415) 863 1087
 
The film moves over to the UC in Berkeley on Friday, Jan. 8, for
2 days, (9 shows). There is are some new chances for press
there, but I am afraid that the same situation may hold true...
so, hello Berkeley... are you out there? If you know about WAX,
please tell someone else about it. 
 
If you don't know anything about the film, you can write me, and
I will send you a text file (about 70k now) with newspaper
reviews, and a variety of descriptions; included are some net
reviews I either found, or was lucky enough to have forwarded on
to me. The film has already made 2 "10 best" lists here in New
York (NY Press and another).
 
 
You can write me at:
 
artist1@rdrc.rpi.edu		(my name is David Blair)
 
 
Obviously, I am self-distributing, in case you wonder why I have
taken the taking the liberty of posting.
 
 
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Following are some quotes, to warm you up, then the listing of
playdates up until spring:
 
 
William Gibson (author, Neuromancer, Count Zero, etc.) on WAX:
 
"Authentically peculiar. Like something from the network vaults
of an alternate universe."
 
William T. Vollman (author, "You Bright and Risen Angels", "The
Iceshirt", "The Rainbow Stories", all Penguin/Viking Press)
 
"I admire your dark and paranoid visions in all of their
intergalactic complexity."
 
Larry McCaffery (editor, "Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook
on Cyberpunk and Postmodern Fiction", Duke University Press):
 
"WAX strikes me as a truly major accomplishment, intellectually
rich, verbally inventive, visually stunning, and -- perhaps most
remarkable of all -- as emotionally resonant as any film I've
come across in recent years."
 
Brooks Landon (author, "Aesthetics of Ambivalence: Rethinking SF
Film in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production", Greenwood Press)
 
"WAX is like no movie you have ever seen. Call it postmodern,
postcyberpunk... or post cinema, the point is this 85 minute
celebration of the possibilities of "electronic cinema" may well
indicate the future direction of SF film, if not "film" itself.
 
Timothy Leary
 
"WAX is a treat for the eyeballs, a delight for the receptor
sites, a brilliant illumination for our left brains and our right
brains!"
 
 
 
 
Here are the screenings:
 
Jan. 1-7
Roxie, San Francisco
Sat, Sun: 2,4,6,8,10 / Mon-Thur 6,8,10 (except no show Wed. at 8)
(on film)
 
Jan. 8.9
UC, Berkeley
Friday: 5,7,9,11 / Sat: 1,3,5,7,9
 
Jan. 14, Jan. 21
Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
time ? 
(video projection... one of the best in the country)
 
Jan. 15
Media Lab, MIT
closed screening (but not sure)
(video projection; maker present)
 
Jan. 21
Knitting Factory, New York
7:30 pm (Knot Room)
(video; maker present)
 
Jan. 27, 28
Watershed Cinema, Bristol, UK
(film)
 
Feb. 6th
Cornell Cinema, on campus of Cornell University
part of the VR-film weekend
(film)
 
Feb. 11, 12
Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
(film)
 
week of Feb. 16th
Filmhouse, Edinburgh, UK
sometime that week
(film)
 
Feb. 24-28th
Brown University, Providence, RI
as part of Vanguard Festival, mainly experimental, cyberpunk, and
hypertext writers, with some visual artists.  Attendees include
Kathy Acker, Mark Leyner, Larry McCaffery, and about 30 others.
Sponsored by the English Department (Robert Coover). If you're in
Providence, check it out!
(film; maker present)
 
March 4-7
Hillus Intermediale Projektforschung, Vienna, Austria 
as part of an Austrian symposium called "On-Line"; no more info
available at this moment
(video; maker present)
 
March 26th
Saratoga Springs Public Library
evening
(video; maker present)
 
Proposed for this period are a number of dates- not firmly fixed
yet. These are:
 
early March
STUC, Leuven, Belgium
(film; maker present)
 
mid-March
Upstate Cinema, Rhinebeck, NY
(film; maker present)
 
late-March
The Movies, Portland, Maine
(film)
 
April (?)
UNM, Albuquerque
(film)
 
May (?)
Clinton St. Theatre, Portland, Oregon
(film)
 
Film openings in Boston, Chicago, Washington are also possible
(in case you're curious why you're not listed).
 
A Japanese-language film version will open in Tokyo in the early
summer.
 
 
Thanks for your attention. If you think of a good venue, let me
know!
 
 
If you are curious about cassettes, I am selling a limited
edition of 500, signed and numbered, to help pay off the post
production and distribution expenses. They are $36 postpaid. My
address is 
 
David Blair
P.O. Box 174, 
Cooper Station
New York, NY 10276
 
 
in the UK, PAL versions, within this numbered sequence,  are
available for 22 pounds (postpaid) from:
 
NSFA
c/o Chris Reed
BBR
PO Box 625
Sheffield S13GY, UK