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the Forgotten Film Gallery 2013



After having to put Lambchop to sleep was glad to leave the house with the kids and some films for a few days. Found some lonely walls in Tonopah. Was also lucky to visit Smokey’s home near the ruins of the old Mill in Belmont NV.  
This segment includes soundtrack Disengage by Lowell Levine-Sims and Bp Olar

Films: 

Classical Liz by Jon Obsworth 

The Testament 2013 by Fred L‘Epee

Lost in Space by Bp Olar
An American arabesque by Ron Diorio

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the Dead Bird Story

Words and Voice by J de Salvo: thebicyclereview.net/

Was written a while back by writer and artist J. De Salvo on the occasion of the death of William S. Burroughs. The film is also sort of a memory for me, meeting J. outside that cafe in San Francisco. My son is still afraid to go on a boat. Funny thing is now I’m afraid to go on a cruise. go figure…

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the Forgotten Film Gallery 2013

Shared more films with the lonely desert and the critters again. This time was an old jail in Tecopa and part of an abandoned resort facing the Soda Mountains. At one point two curious bats joined us on the floor of the old building. 
Robert Fulton, manager of California Sate University Desert Studies Center welcomed us including myself, family our talented executive producer Fred L’Epee and our films as the Desert Research Center’s guests. Robert, also gave a candid interview concerning some of the environmental challenges facing the Soda Mountains and the Mojave:  http://theforgottenfilmgallery.wordpress.com/

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the FORGOTTEN FILM GALLERY 2012 highlights


Currently working on a documentary video art installation. Learning about the past, future, present and large for profit solar power in the desert. All seems connected. The plan for now is to keep creating more Forgotten Film Galleries.

The Forgotten Film Gallery is a documentary film project and video art installation which plans to showcase a collection of films dealing with interpretations of the forgotten and the indefinite time period during and after the present. The Forgotten Film Gallery will attempt to link the past, present and future using the Mojave desert as the video art installation space.

Below are some highlights from the current Forgotten Gallery. To learn about the more current and complete Forgotten Gallery story please
visit: http://theforgottenfilmgallery.wordpress.com/


tune is called: Shards of Colour
music by Barbara De Dominicis

Recently learned Bright Source a large for profit energy corporation plans to erect two solar towers at Hidden Hills. Not sure what will become of the Hidden Cathedral or Queho’s grave. In other news, I’ve been working on how to create stop motion with my new Cannon. More shots to come. Stay tuned.


My family and I have been coming here for the last fifteen years. During the 70′s Hidden Hills Ranch near Pahrump, Nevada was an area that attracted over a thousand visitors a month. Hidden Hills Ranch was a non denominational, spiritual place created out of the existing rocks by Roland Wiley. Roland was a prominent attorney who also helped shape Las Vegas. We came back a few weeks ago. Thinking maybe we can show some of the films here. Finding more to the story about Hidden Hills Ranch and the surrounding area. I’ll keep you posted. -g
Music by Zigo Rayopineal


After 22 years of marriage my husband still talks to me… sometimes. Here he is testing the TV’s we plan to take to Hidden Hills. My demand is the electronics must work together with the borrowed 2000 watt Honda gas generator. Power is crucial to the Forgotten Film Gallery. No power in the lonely desert or is there? Wish we could plug the TV’s into to the sun. Maybe a small catheter plugged to one of the rays would work. lol. For now a tight collar of gas with hopefully a long enough leash must hide behind a hill or my selfish dream will not work. Stay tuned.
Music by Zigo Rayonpineal tune is called: quumTlismns


Was the perfect time to take a drive from Vegas and share films with the lonely desert. Upon arrival to the gallery we learned serendipity can change.


After learning our intended gallery had been burned down and my camera mic had other plans for sound, the decision was still to watch these films. A video montage honoring the following works inside the last remaining dwelling with a roof at Hidden Hills:
Films included in this segment:
Days Gone Not Forgotten by Jesse Richards
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo by Istvan Horkay
R.O.O.T.S. by Pinina Podesta
Paradox of the Absurd by Maria Niro
Factory For Sale by Frederic Chagnard and Agnès Hardy
Unconcerned But Not Indifferent by Fred L’Epée and Dimitra Pouliopoulou

After my journey as an astronaut to the forgotten planet. I learned perceptions have power. Television at the cathedral on a desert planet… surreal and beautiful experience for us. The crickets even played a live concerto with our TV’s! lol. Some highlights and sounds from the show.

Included in this segment:
Il Vangelo Secondo Matteo by Istvan Horkay
“my favorite color was blue” by H.D. Lang
Homo Sapiens 1 by Rouzbeh Rashidi
Spotter by Chris Marsh
Remembering Belle Isle by David Sanchez Burr
A 60 Seconds Study for ΙΚΑΡΟΣ by Roland Quelven
Concerto by the Crickets

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The EARL SESSIONS (movie trailer)

Movie Trailer
Watch full length movie here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/theearlsessions

Headphones recommended. Soundtrack by artists: David Eng, Bp Olar, Jacob Shelton, Craig Murray, Phil Andrews, Wounds (Winter Ambient Works) and the late Mr. Barry Titus. Starring Earl Woodruff as himself. Featuring the voice of actress Shannon Lark.

The EARL SESSIONS premiered in May of 2011, screening on six screens as part of the Dis-Place This Collection at the world renown Glue Factory Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland. Also the Earl Sessions was featured at the Museum Of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires with a live scored interpretation by sound artist Zigo Rayonpineal. Awarded most innovative film by the Pollygrind Film Festival 2011 and an official Cannes Independent Selection for 2011.

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Film Archive

Shards of Colour
Featured in the Forgotten Film Gallery May 2012 Hidden Hills Cathedral


Soundtrack: Barbra Del Demonics

Gunk + Elk
Featured: Mindscapes Film Event, October, 2011 Las Vegas NV.


Soundtrack: Zigo Rayonpineal

Flesh and Higher Mathematics
Featured: Mindscapes Film Event, October, 2011 Las Vegas NV.


Soundtrack: Lowell Levine Sims

Ground
Featured: Dimensions Film Event Artist Televisions Access San Francisco August 2011


Soundtrack: Pierrepoint’s Epitaph by Dirk Drieson

Hanging Stanes
A film adaptation of the poem: The Hanging Stanes by Sam Meekings for the McEwan Hall Showcase in Edinburgh. Filmed 2009 in Tecopa, CA.


Narration: Alastair Cook

Soundtrack: Jacob Shelton


Mary Jane Go Round
Visceria Film Award 2010

Disintegration
Featured: OMEGA 7 From Hive This Mind Project Howling Dog Press 2009
Soundtrack: David Eng

Hippodrome Mime
Pollygrind Film Award Best Music Video 2010


Soundtrack: David Eng

The Baby Pool
Story about Fear

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the Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli

the Lost episodes of beatie scareli

The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli is a novel published in 2008. Written as a hybrid of a script. What starts off innocently told through the voice of a 12 year old girl (Beatie Scareli) is the story of how the young girl tries to make sense of her life through a nickelodeon view of the world. At the same time a woman watches the young girl’s past on her television. The story soon turns and twists until the girl and her family becomes darkly connected to reality or fiction.

“Ginnetta Correli demands the engagement of readers in a manner that exceeds the traditional narrator-audience” –Prick of the Spindle Literary Arts Review

“A surprisingly sophisticated tale, with images that haunt the mind long after the book is over” –Chicago Center of Literary Arts and Photography

“If I Love Lucy is intended to make light of life’s situations, then “The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli” is, as the anti-Lucy, intended to examine those quandaries, no matter how difficult” -NewPages

“Innovatively and Well Written” -Group Pen B.A. Book Reviews

“Bottom line: The Lost Episodes of Beatie Scareli is one of the most original novels I’ve read in years. If you want to be challenged, if you desire to experience a range of emotions, if you are seeking something totally offbeat, check out Beatie Scareli. If you want simple mind-numbing escapism, I suggest you look elsewhere, maybe the Twilight saga.” -Alternative Reel

Personalized Signed Limited 1st edition author publisher books available.  Asking for a $20.00 donation and mailing address.  Also, if you like please feel free to submit a  100-1000 word story or poetic submission about the human condition. Most honest writing submissions  to be published on beatie’s journal.

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News-Media-Articles

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Planet Ethera

source: http://www.planetetheria.com/2011/12/02/genre-defying-series-the-earl-session-airing-online-now/
“Genre-defying “The Earl Sessions””

by Heidi Martinuzzi published Dec 02, 2011

The Earl Sessions”: A series of short episodes exploring persona using horrifying imagery, a bit of black comedy, and lots of other techniques that I am not quite sure how to describe properly. This shit is weird – I won’t lie. It’s awesome and weird and creative and surreal

Appeared in Rubies and Crystals October 28,
source: 2011 http://brendaclews.blogspot.com/2011/10/videopoem-fridays-ground-by-ginnetta.html

Written & Narrated: Alastair Cook
Directed & Edited: Ginnetta Correli
Soundtrack: Pierrepoint’s Epitaph by Dirk Drieson

Ground has an impenetrable quality. The film imagery, poem and reading approach each other without quite meeting. In that circle of visual and verbal imagery and the emotion of the voice of the reader, we witness a flame dancing without knowing who lit it, who blows on it, or why it goes out, if it does.

Something profound happens. But what? Is the poem notes on death and what resurrects us through life? Or the dream of a life?

At the end, the man… but you must watch to see this.

I am reminded of Médem’s Lucía y el sexo, where the island rests on a cacophony of unmappable caves that constitute its base and that are not attached to the seabed, but float, and where one of the characters disappears forever into.

As in dream, the images in Ground are vivid, strong, and reveal something important if elusive. The images of the poem and the film are are strewn in a landscape of inner symbolism. A motorcycle. An empty road. The shadow of a figure, perhaps the filmmaker filming the scene. A small white snake lying in the road. A man holding onto the lip of rock in a cave hole. A gloved hand picking up the poisonous snake and placing it carefully on the shoulder of the road. An abandoned hut where the outside seems inside, empty save for the crumpled paper of the poet, a bed of rocks and light.

This is a surreal filmpoem; it has a European art film feel to it. Like when watching an Almodóvar, forget logic, for a rational approach to understanding won’t reveal anything. As you seek to embrace the meaning of the film, you find mindfulness here like a Zen koan.

You can’t quite put it together. Rather, feel the deep angst the film produces. That’s where the film is unfolding in your consciousness as a message, a predicament, a riddler of the paradoxes of life.

Or the immanence of death.

Ground is hauntingly beautiful, in a disturbing way. In the embracing mindfulness, a poetry of poison, death, loss, and beauty, all of which is natural, found in the natural world, amidst a surreality. We feel cross-currents, disambiguations, and yet the over-arching journey metaphor of Cook’s minimalist poetry, and the bond of love he speaks of, yes, living is like this. Simply a superb film.

Do watch. The two minutes and 35 seconds will become a dream you are having.
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The poem is composed of haiku written by Alastair; his blog, written in my hand is well worth exploring too.

Las Vegas Weekly interview by Josh Bell October 12, 2011 source: http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/news/2011/oct/12/chatting-local-filmmaker-ginnetta-correli/
Not the Dark Knight: Earl Woodruff takes Batman to a new level

Ginnetta Correli isn’t your typical local filmmaker. The artist and mother of two uses public-domain found footage along with her original material to create visual collages that are more like video installations than traditional narratives. Her debut feature, The Earl Sessions, plays at the PollyGrind film festival this week.
Calendar
The Earl Sessions
October 16, 7 p.m., $7
Theatre 7
Beyond the Weekly
pollygrind.com
What is your process for figuring out the combination of original and found footage?
I don’t even know if there is an artistic process. It’s more like, “Oh, wow! Ooh, that feels good! Ooh, let’s try that!” Try it and see if it works. Lots of writing and erasing. Lots of putting it there and, “Oh, that doesn’t go with that.” It’s like trying on clothes.
How did you get together with star/subject Earl Woodruff for this film?
It was really weird. We struck up a conversation at the grocery store. He was just a comedian and he was kind of a filmmaker too, but he was a filmmaker that kind of gave up. When his friends grew up, they all went their separate ways, but he had all this stuff that he had from his past. We just started talking. We kind of hit it off. He seemed really open-minded.
Where else has the movie played?
It played at a gallery [the Glue Factory in Glasgow]. That was one of the cool things about it when it first premiered in Glasgow. [The programmer] didn’t want to play it on a regular movie screen. She played it on like six walls, so the people had to walk through, and they couldn’t get away from Earl. He’d haunt them. The music kind of freaked them out a little bit. They were trying to turn it off, because they were freaked out, but they couldn’t turn it off. I know it sounds crazy, but it’s almost like Earl won’t let you.

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JMDF is an agent of Porcelain Bomb Las Vegas
Source: http://www.artsvegas.com/2011/11/mindscapes-video-art-at-theatre7/
Source: http://www.porcelainbomb.com/
Don’t worry if you missed Mindscapes the other weekend at Theater7. You can catch it in February when the show arrives in San Francisco. Or, thanks to the marvels of modern technology, you can watch a few of these cutting edge videos in the comfort of your own home right now. According to local event organizers and filmmakers Ginnetta Correli and Cassandra Sechler, this collection represents “a critical movement happening under the belly of mainstream culture.” They could be right. Video art installations are on the rise, a delightful offspring of the budding orgiastic romance between dozens of artistic disciplines.

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ABOUT

Ginnetta Correli’s work has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary Art Buenos Aires, La Cupula Medialab in Cordoba, Fiesta NiÑoS ConsentidoS Buenos Aires, Glue Factory Glasgow, McEwan Hall Showcase Scotland, ATA San Francisco and Beyond Barque Literary Arts Center. Working with found objects, video, film, sound, photography, animation and words as a medium. The goal of exploring often under-appreciated conflicts within the human condition. Using a Do It Yourself approach with a commitment to collaborations and art installations with like minded visual and sound artists globally.
Email: beatiescareli@gmail.com