This weekend (Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 October) from 16.00 – 01.00 at WORM
JUNK IS GOLD
PERSONAL DISCOVERIES FROM THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD OF CELLULOID

Junk Is Gold is a celebration of renegade film culture, a tribute to the sense of discovery, reanimation and vandalism that characterizes that dying contact sport called 16mm film. Join us for the funeral!

Guest collectors and film makers:

Annette Frick – double slide projector performance – FUCK GENDER
Kerry Laitala – darkroom workshop plus 3D and found footage film programmes
Wilhelm Hein – expanded film performances plus films from Warhol, Sharits, Kenneth Anger, Otto Muehl, Man Ray, Dieter Roth.
Jack Stevenson – double screen projections including Ruminations on LSD and Erotic Home Movies – an Ambient Composition in 4 Acts

With twelve packed programmes over the two days, it’s worth checking WORM’s website for further details and each day’s schedule. Things kick off on Saturday afternoon with an open screening at 16.00.

Music from:
Nudge (us) [Tigerbeat6 / Kranky]
Sister Iodine (fr) [Editionsmego]
Starving Weirdos (us, ZXZW 2008) [Blackest Rainbow / Cut Hands]

The term “JUNK” is used here in reference to collecting things that have a value to you and which is perhaps not visible to others. And yet this “junk” can interest the uninitiated if the pieces are re-ordered in the right ways or are somehow brought to life by other processes, jolting them out of their original context and giving them new meaning. This implies not just “collecting” films but gathering up the fragments of sound/image/object that exist in the lost uncharitable sea of 16mm and distilling a personal meaning out of the raw materials. Junk in the sense of something discarded, something that cannot be mass-produced or sold back… junk in the sense of something taken apart and that no longer serves its original purpose but that can be reassembled in intuitive ways. Something you perhaps did not create but that you can re-create, a medium, a process and an attitude that encourages individual exploration rather than sedentary spectatorship. (Jack Stevenson)

WORM pays tribute to this intuitive, transient quality of 16mm film and its endless potentiality with presentations by: Kerry the conjurer who brings dead things to life, Jack the Junker, an accidental collector who specializes in serendipitous encounters, and Wilhelm the dissident, keeper of the flame of subversion.

For more information: check the site of WORM