{"id":3239,"date":"2011-04-24T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T18:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:54:16","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:54:16","slug":"iow-eight-arms-to-ixnay-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=3239","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Eight arms to ixnay you"},"content":{"rendered":"

No surprise, gang, but we crossed another <\/em>10-year anniversary in MICRO-FILM<\/strong> history a few days back, just two weeks after wrapping up our current activity to which it best relates, the New Art Film Festival<\/strong>. If your humble editor had his way in a previous role as Production Manager of the late Champaign-Urbana<\/strong> publication The Octopus<\/span><\/strong>, you might have been leafing through its April 20, 2001<\/strong> issue a decade ago bearing the following cover:<\/p>\n

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While refraining from actual subterfuge, he offered up this \u201cB\u201d design since the photo files given him to illustrate that week\u2019s cover story \u2013 a profile of Frank Black and the Catholics<\/strong> \u2013 were of less than stellar resolution. (We\u2019ll also clarify that the deliberately cheeky blurbs at the bottom of this mock-up did not <\/em>make it to press.) Indirectly promoting that weekend\u2019s \u201cOctopus<\/span> Gallery Walk<\/strong>,\u201d a precursor to the Boneyard Arts Festival<\/strong>, this alternate front page for the alt-weekly called attention to his first attempt as C-U indie movie impresario, MICRO-FILM V\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/strong>, which took place across the street from the Octopus<\/span> offices at The Highdive<\/strong> on Saturday, April 21<\/strong>, from 11:30 a.m.<\/strong> to 5 p.m. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tied in to \u201cZineophilia<\/strong>,\u201d an exhibition of illustrative art and self-publishing staged at Southlynn Studios<\/strong> within the Octopus<\/span> environs, MICRO-FILM V\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/strong> offered a quirky slate of shorts, previews, and the Portland<\/strong>-made road trip feature GOOD GRIEF<\/strong> which had come through the front gates of the Secret MICRO-FILM Headquarters<\/strong> in its earliest days. Locally made material included John May<\/strong>\u2019s stop-motion exercise ISOLATION<\/strong>, Mike Trippiedi<\/strong>\u2019s \u201cslasher film in rhyme\u201d BUCKY McSNEAD<\/strong>, Peter James Zielinski<\/strong>\u2019s spoof S.U.R.V.I.V.O.R.<\/strong>, Mike Stone<\/strong> and Andy McAllister<\/strong>\u2019s original Illini Film & Video<\/strong> teaser, and a trailer for Hart D. Fisher<\/strong>\u2019s THE GARBAGE MAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The pixilated Black Francis and friends received the cover honors out of deference to editor co-workers, but at least we can\u2019t say he didn\u2019t step up to the plate on behalf of the film brethren. In the present, we\u2019ll talk once more about \u201cZineophilia\u201d shortly in relation to next weekend\u2019s Midwest Zine Fest<\/strong> at the Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center<\/strong> and detail the role C-U Confidential<\/strong> will have in making the joint hop. Until then, we draw from the archives this MICRO-FILM V\u00e9rit\u00e9<\/strong> flier with original MF <\/strong>model Cecilia Lucas<\/strong>, who currently lives in Berkeley, CA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n

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From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: With one public display of C-U cinema in the books and another coming up very soon, we recall the 10th anniversary of our original attempt at presenting movies and reveal a failed bid at bonus street cred for our not-ready-for-prime-time efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,189,19,16,15,25,13],"tags":[674,673,126,672],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-area-festivals","category-c-u-confidential-shows","category-images-du-cu","category-jp-confidential","category-media-coverage","category-micro-film-du-c-u","category-public-events","tag-bucky-mcsnead","tag-micro-film-verite","tag-the-garbage-man","tag-the-octopus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}