ShangOrama.com presents
Kubrick's 2001 Trilogy!!!
In-person, underground Kubrick academic MC Shanger will introduce a new theory of Kubrick's true 2001 trilogy!!! Y'arrr!!!
Saturday, September 15, 2007--- 9pm - 4am (doors open at 8pm) @Majlis - $5 cover
9:00pm - 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, 148', 35mm (2.2), colour, Dolby digital, UK/USA) - oooooooooooh!!!
Writer/Directer/Producer/Special Effects Designer: Stanley Kubrick; (uncredited) Camera Operator/DP/Editor/Sound Designer/chief bottle washer: Stanley Kubrick.
Certainly my favourite Kubrick film ever!!! This film defined a whole generation, by immortalizing dee year 2001. Kubrick, as dee great film scientist, was his own visionary here folks. Even Ridley Scott hired a visionary for Blade Runner. But not our dear old Sir Stanley!!! Kubrick received his only-ever Oscar here for Special Effects Design. R.I.P. Sir Stanley, your Droogs are in dee house!!!!
12:00pm - A Clockwork Orange (1971, 137'', 35mm (1.37), B&W/colour, Dolby digital, UK/USA) - aaaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Writer/Directer/Producer: Stanley Kubrick; (uncredited) Camera Operator/DP/Editor/Sound Designer/chief bottle washer: Stanley Kubrick.
I was always an established fact that this was Kubrick's sequel to 2001!!! ACO was Kubrick's way of telling us what we had to give up to achieve dominion over outer space, hence, what was it really like on earth. The debate over what year ACO takes place in will always rage on. I believe, like most others, that ACO takes place in 1995 because of the single best clue, dee Durango '95 car that Alex & his Droogs drive to when getting to dee "Home" house. Remember? How true you were Sir Stanley.
2:30am - Eyes Wide Shut (1999,159', 35mm (1.66), colour, Dolby Digital, UK/USA) - dee un-censored European version will be shown!!! Being an Icelandic cinema really helps here folks. Y'arrr!!!
Writer/Directer/Producer: Stanley Kubrick;(uncredited) Camera Operator/DP/Editor/Sound Designer/chief bottle washer: Stanley Kubrick.
Well, for one was released around the year 2001 (dah). But that's not really why it's his finale. With EWS you must ask yourself one question, did what we see really happen or did Dr. Harford (Cruise) actually dream it. Think about that for a sec? For me, EWS is a dream, where Kubrick just continued from where he left off in 2001. It's dee dream state that Kubrick was after here folks, but, it's filmed in super-realism. No trick photography for this film scientist. No sir-e? EWS has dee exact same feel as dee ending of 2001.
See you here @MAJLIS: 163 Walnut Ave.
---MAJLIS is between Richmond & Adelaide; 1-bk W. Niagara [2-Little Lights W. Bathurst]---[[[View Map]]]
Remember, our Shanger & Daughter Cafe is just here for some of your shangin' comfort needs. OK? Shang! Shang! Shangers!!!
About MC Shanger:
"Gio. Shanger” was born in Australia in 1959. Son of Italian parents, they soon moved to Italy, and eventually settled in Toronto in 1969. A 1986 film studies degree from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, led to a Sr Motion Picture Technologist position in that department, where he worked until 1996. He left to pursue his full-time experimentations in new ways of approaching documentary filmmaking. As a result, he has made film history with Ice Rushes: An Icelandic Odyssey, an experimental-documentary about the spirituality and freedom in Iceland. For the first time, the visuals have been shot "1:1", that is everything that he shoots, in the order that he shoots it in, is the final film and then wrote a sound design which was recorded in front of a live audience, all in one take, with no overdubs! He permanently moved to Iceland between 2000-04 as a result of making his film Ice Rushes – the second film of his Rushes trilogy, which he conceived of as an exploration into his "1:1" style, by means of a tribute to his three mentors. The first film is Rail Rushes: A Railroad Odyssey (a tribute to Stan Brakhage) and the last is New York Rushes: A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey (both remain unfinished). Ice Rushes is a tribute to my number one filmmaker and the one that has influenced my work the most, Robert Flaherty. An Angry Black Dog Farts at Midnight is the epilogue to the Rushes trilogy. It’s strange stereo filmmaker approach to making a film, It’s premise is simple: can two filmmakers make a 1:1, with one camera. The answer folks is NO! So we used two cameras. Enough said there folks!!!
The Rushes Trilogy is the result of over twenty years of experimentation in his "1:1" style. He has made only eighty S-8 & 16mm films over that time, but has amassed over 700 "films" on video, mostly documenting the live performance arts in Toronto since 1980 until the present-day. Yes folks I have made almost 800 films (please don’t call dee Guinness folks). As a hermit filmmaker, he almost always works alone. Ice Rushes and ...Black Dog... are only his second and third films that he has allowed to tour on the film festival circuit; where he never applied, but rather, was asked by astute programmers. "One hundred years from now, I will be the last filmmaker on earth. Traveling with my film projector and trusty dog, I would be hand-processing the film that I shot that-day, and narrating my films at night to anyone that wants to remember what film was like – since by then we will all have holodecks."
On Oct 11, 2006 he started ShangOrama.com, which is an extension of all the film exhibition experimentations of The Bio Reykjavik Film Collective (Iceland), of which he co-founded in 2002, and was it’s head for its first three years. Hence why ShangOrama.com is dee world’s only Icelandic cinema outside Iceland. Enjoy this evening folks!!! Y’arrr!!! Oh, he authored two books: Kubrick: A Biothon Biography, and dee 36-hr Stanley Kubrick Biothon programme (over 4000 Icelanders showed up for this one, that's 1.5% of dee whole 280,000 Icelandic population folks; "Biothon" means "movie marathon" in Icelandic). For dee last three-years he has been working on a mammoth book on just Frank Zappa dee filmmaker (tentatively) called, Studio Z: dee Frank Zappa filmmaker-filmography!!!
Browse our archives:
Event #8 - "Kubrick's 2001 Trilogy" (Sat, Sept 15, 2007)
Event #7 - "Death House: dee Class of '93" (Mon, Sept 10, 2007)
Event #6 - "MC Shanger's 'Rushes Trilogy'" (Sat, Sept 29, 2007)
Event #5 - "Dario Argento's Goblin Trilogy" (Sat, Aug 25, 2007)
Event #4 - "a 20-hr Mario Bava mini-me Movie Marathon" (Fri&Sat, Aug 17&18, 2007)
Event #3 - "Remember Our Fallen Filmmakers Night!!!" (Sat, Nov 11, 2006)
Event #2 - "2 Banned Hell-o-ween Films" (Tues, Oct 31, 2006)
Event #1 - "12-hr 'Friday dee 13th' Movie Marathon" (Fri dee 13th of Oct, 2006)
CONTACT & Mailing List additions: shanger@shangorama.com
Shang-O-Rama.com came on-line & was beamed-out from Toronto at precisely: 10:10am (10/11/06)
Can't wait for dee next Halloween - ACO & The Droogs gang rules that night!!! Viddy well folks. Viddy well Droogies...
© 2007 Gio. Shanger!!!