GET THIS PICTURE HERE

Old friends Andrew Lampert, Steve Dalachinsky and Yuko Otomo invite one and all to Issue Project Room for the world premiere of their new collaborative film: 

JACKA SPADES (a.k.a. GET THIS PICTURE HERE) 
2009, Super 8mm, 34 minutes, black and white, sound. 
Steve Dalachinsky, with the aid of Yuko Otomo and cinematographer Andrew Lampert, is given the chance to direct his dream film. This is not that, but rather the result of what they shot that day presented in real time as they filmed it. In the end, this is always what the film was supposed to be; what Steve wanted is another story heard on the soundtrack of the images gathered within. Shot last February on the streets of Soho, and mostly edited in-camera, this movie is never shown the same way twice. It will change forms with each subsequent presentation. JACKA SPADES  (a.k.a GET THIS PICTURE HERE) is the second installment in Lampert’s ongoing TABLES TURNED trilogy. In this series, the filmmaker (Lampert) hands over direction of the movie to his subjects. “I think I always wanted to be the actor, not the director.” – Steve Dalachinsky from the soundtrack.

Also expect to hear Dalachinsky and Otomo read selections from recent writings, a new and still untitled film performance from Lampert, additional audio surprises, a potential guest star and, of course, door prizes.

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Bios:

ANDREW LAMPERT, film/video/performance, born St. Louis, lives in Brooklyn. Regularly concocts performances involving projectors, people and text; super 8 and 16mm portraits, home movies and found footage; videos of domestic matters and disjointed narratives; audio recordings on various subjects including those mentioned above and more; other stuff, too. Works have been seen/performed/exhibited here, there including Whitney Museum of American Art, Rotterdam International Film Festival, British Film Institute, The Kitchen, The Getty Museum, Kill Your Timid Notion festival, New York Film Festival, Sculpture Center, The Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film, Cinema Project, Diapason, Issue Project Room and many other venues. He was Director of Programming for the New York Underground Film Festival for many years and is currently Archivist at Anthology Film Archives. Lately he has been reading early Lawrence Block books, listening to Ornette Coleman bootlegs and working on a forthcoming comedy record with musician/writer Alan Licht.

STEVE  DALACHINSKY was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1946 right  after the last BIG WAR and  has managed to survive lots of little  wars. He has been writing poetry since he was a child and though  he has grown older he has never grown up. He has been listening to, inspired by and influenced by music most of his life along with visual art, primarily surrealism and abstract expressionism. His great love is LOVE though he has been called a big curmudgeon. He feels that his poetry is an act of spontaneity and tries rather than  to simply describe the “thing”, the “other,” to transform it. What he likes to think of as a kind of descriptive transformation and  commingling of everything he encounters both internally and  externally. His work has appeared in journals on & off line including; Big Bridge, Milk, Unlikely Stories, Xpressed, Ratapallax, Evergreen Review, Long Shot,  Alpha Beat Soup, Xtant, Blue Beat Jacket, N.Y. Arts Magazine, 88,  Helix and Lost and Found Times to name a few and is included in  numerous anthologies such as Beat Indeed, the Haiku Moment and most notably The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry. His most recent chapbooks include Trial and Error in Paris (Loudmouth Collective 2003),  Musicology (Editions Pioche, Paris 2005), , Lautreamont’s Laments  (Furniture Press 2005), In Glorious Black and White (Ugly Duckling  Presse 2005), St. Lucie (King of Mice Press 2005), Are We Not MEN  & Fake Book (2 books of collage – 8 Page Press 2005). Dream Book  (Avantcular Press 2005), Totems (Unarmed Press 2008) and Christ  Amongst the Fishes ( a book of collage Oilcan Press 2009). He has written many liner notes for such luminaries as Charles Gayle, Roy  Campbell, Matthew Shipp, James “Blood” Ulmer, Anthony Braxton, Rob  Brown, Sabir Mateen, Rashied Ali, Roscoe Mitchell, Hamid Drake, Mat  Maneri, Assif Tshahar and Derek Bailey. His books include A  Superintendent’s Eyes (Hozomeen Press 2000) and his PEN Award winning  book The Final Nite (complete notes from a Charles Gayle Notebook,  Ugly Duckling Presse 2006) and Logos and Language, co-authored with  pianist Matthew Shipp (RogueArt 2008 ). His latest book is Reaching into the Unknown, a collaboration with French photographer Jacques Bisceglia (RoguArt 2009).  His CD’s include Incomplete Directions (Knitting Factory Records with many great  musicians 1999), The End of the World with drummer Federico Ughi (577  Records 2002), Phenomena of Interference with pianist Matthew Shipp  (Hopscotch Records 2005), Merci De Votre Visite with Didier  Lassere and Sebastian Capazza (Amor Fati 2006),  and Thin  Air with Loren Mazzacane Connors (Silver Wonder Press, recorded 2001,  released 2007). He has read his work throughout American including New Orleans , San Francisco and the N.Y. area in venues  such as the Poetry Project and The Bowery Poetry. He has also read extensively Japan, Britian and Europe, including France (posesie  bienniale, Paris,  Musee d’Aquintane, Bordeaux, C.I.P.M.,  Marseilles, Maison d’Poesie,Nante) and various institutions throughout Japan and Germany. He has little formal education and has been called a Jazz- poet, a post-beat poet, a street poet etc. All of these he flatly denies. He’s also been called lots of other things, some of which he is and some of which he is NOT.  Or as he likes to see it: HE SIMPLY IS… or as Monk once stated, ” I don’t know I just do IT.”   

YUKO OTOMO is a visual artist & a bilingual poet (poetry & haiku) who is of Japanese origin. She also writes art criticism, essays & does translation. In visual art, she has been concentrating herself on the study of “pure abstraction” & has created a body of work covering over 3 decades. Her work has been shown in various gallery spaces; such as Tribes Gallery, Anthology Film Archives Courthouse Gallery, ABC No Rio, Brecht Forum, Gallery 128, Knitting Factory & Vision Festival. As a poet/writer, she has read her work in venues such as St. Marks’s Poetry Project, Bowery Poetry Club, Tonic, The Stone, Knitting Factory, NY Public Library, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Nest, Pink Pony, Nuyorican Poet’s Café etc.  She also has read in Germany, France & Japan. She has been published in many magazines & literary publications such as Recluse, 6×6, Long Shot, Appearances, The Unbearables Assemblage Magazine, Downtown Anthology, Senritsu & others. Her books include “ Garden: Selected Haiku” (Beehive Press), “Small Poems”, “The Hand of the Poet” (by Ugly Duckling Presse), “Cornell box Poems”, “Genesis”, “ Fragile” (by  Sisyphus Press). She also has a huge volume of critical writing on art such as “On Artist & Studio”, “On Artuad: Writing & Drawing”, Henri Michaux: Untitled Passage”, “Vermeer & the Deft School”, “ Being as an academician versus being an intellectual”, “Victor Hugo”  & etc