#weirdmagic

[tadlambert]

One of my favorite characters from a comic ineas going to do but lost time. The mage merchant who specializes in weird magical artifacts. #character_design #characterdesign #digitalinking #digitaldrawing #magic #fantasy #weirdmagic #fantasymerchant https://www.instagram.com/p/B3K6-_IjS4S/?igshid=nq3695b08395

[pompilini]

My heart beats in patters to the broken sound, You're the only one that can calm me down

[classturniplv1]

Late night question, how does Gandalf and Dumbledore use face mask? Where the beards go? It's a pokeball thing?? Spacial distortion??? Do the beards go and take tea?

[cinemathequeblab]

In Review: Weird Magic

The opening night was a huge success. We had around 13 or 14 people in attendance during the entire night. The seats were all filled, the space was very cozy, and the smell of popcorn permeated. The only real concern was for future events with more people in attendance. We’re going to need room for seating. But the turn out and response of the people there was fantastic. Everyone brought their own magic to really make this thing feel like something special.

My intention was to really give people something to experience. To both shake their worlds and conceptions- of film, as well as the world around them. From the brief talks I’ve had with some of the attendees I think that was accomplished. There was a great energy, and it was exciting to hear how people were reacting to the films shown, and any discussions during the intermission about what they’d just seen. I was already reeling by the end of the night, itching to start the next program. (I think I have figured it out, which now leaves a months wait. It’s gonna be hard.)

It was a dizzying night of beauty, laughter, and melancholy. This was exactly what I was hoping for from this journey. A big thanks to everyone that showed up for this, and everyone who contributed their time and efforts to setting it up. We see you. We appreciate you. And we are excited for the many more nights like this we will be sharing.

Until the next odyssey.

With love,

Jimmy

(P.S - Film screening list can be found here, Playlist for the night can be found here.)

[cinemathequeblab]

Cinema Night #1: Weird Magic

The first film program put together for the Cinematheque du Blab is titled Weird Magic, and is meant to be a celebration of people, life and film. These three things make up a holy trinity of both the Weird and Magical parts of the universe for me. The weirder things are the more magical they tend to be. We’re all in this tumble-fuck of an existence together. I think it’s important to celebrate it in all its joy, playfulness, surrealism and melancholy.

After spending the greater part of the past fifteen years glued to a screen in some form or other, and watching anything from early silent film to modern blockbusters, cinema seems to have become a large—yet largely solitary—aspect of my life. I’ve always wanted to share this experience with others. I’ve also, like most cinephile types, always wanted to run my own little cinema. I’m now able to live out both of those desires. Even if only modestly.

The program includes three features (Brand Upon the Brain; Une femme est Une femme; It’s Such a Beautiful Day) and six shorts (Hi, Stranger; Bachelorette; LOVESTREAMS; Life on Mars?; Two Cars, One Night; Castello Cavalcanti). In this is couched both my own personal history and self-portrait, as well as that of moving pictures themselves. I’ll only be talking about the second part here. While none of the films are particularly old (Godard’s film and a Bowie music video being the exception) they do make reference to: Silent Film, Practical Effects, Animation (both hand drawn and stop-motion), Golden age Musicals, Foreign film, Nouvelle Vague, Music Videos, Video Game Cut-Scenes, B&W and Colour films. It was my express intent to have this be a solid introduction to the wide-scope of the medium in an easily digestible way for the uninitiated and hesitant. This is after all setting-up the entire Cinema’s future programming.

This programs main goal was to celebrate and project all this emotion and history, both personal and public. Ideally all of us collectively being transported to a sort of Dreamscape world where we could all explore our inner-selves and one another. At the very least, showing a bunch of people some really cool shit they might not have otherwise got the chance to experience.

And finally, a promotional poster for the night in question:

[acherondelacroix]

Feel the magic! Feliz domingo! Haciendo pruebas tontas, jajajaja! #DarkMagic #MagicRevolution #Demonia #weirdmagic

[frikaantime]

Sensational.

[frikaantime]

Techno Head.