Local filmmakers get a Goldie opportunity
By Max Goldberg
The San Francisco Bay Guardian’s GOLDIES got off to a good start at 111 Minna last night, with MC Marga Gomez jokingly describing the Goldies as, “the Golden Globes for poor people.” Indeed, many of this year’s “outstanding local discoveries” by the arts staff of the newspaper work outside the realm of mainstream art (read: profitability). As far as film is specifically concerned, the Bay Area has a rich history of experimental, politically active underground cinema, a tradition this year’s two Goldie filmmakers embodied in very different ways.
Kerry Laitala strikes a classical experimentalist pose, hand-processing her own arabesques so to further emphasize their materiality. The clip from “Muse of Cinema” cast a haunting spell in its dense soundtrack-image weave, with all the disembodied clapping hands seeming the perfect tonic for an awards ceremony, especially since Ms. Laitala couldn
11.14.2007