The Sprocket Society is pleased to announce its Fall 2009 season, featuring a mixture of avant garde, documentary, and genre film programs, plus a good old-fashioned Halloween movie show. For the latest information, visit our events page, sign up for our e-mail list, or join us on Facebook.
HEAVY VISUALS ‘69
Electronic Cinema and Experimental Film
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On Saturday, July 25, 2009, pioneering sound artist Richard Lerman will be performing a concert as part of the excellent and always-ongoing Wayward Music Series at the Good Shepherd Center (located at 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. in Seattle, at the SW corner of 50th & Sunnyside in Wallingford). Admission is a $5 – $15 sliding [...]
Available for free download is the Washington State Film Preservation Manual: Low-Cost and No-Cost Suggestions To Care For Your Film (PDF) by Nicolette Bromberg, Hannah Palin, and Libby Burke of the University of Washington Libraries. It is recommended for anyone with a film collection.
It’s a good, basic but fairly thorough primer on how institutions (or [...]
It’s official — The Sprocket Society will be curating Secret Sunday Matinee II at the Northwest Film Forum this spring, March 1 – May 24, 2009!
Now at a later time — 3 PM (by popular demand). Each show will be a full two hours of classic and rare movie entertainment. Series passes will be available.
Our [...]
This past Friday — Memorial Day weekend — was our first backyard movie party of the season, we being the usual suspects of Brian, Gary, and myself. The location, once again, was Brian and Gary’s duplex in Ballard, which I’ve come to start calling The Ballard CineYard — tho KinoHortus also crossed the mind. (”Kino” [...]
On Friday, September 29, Brian and Gary and I had a second Backyard Movie Party behind their duplex, just three weeks after the one on Labor Day Sunday. Miraculously, the weather cooperated and it was clear, slightly crisp night.
There are a couple great Flickr albums of low-light photographs of the evening by Patrick and Brian.
Following [...]
On Labor Day Sunday 2006 (Sept. 3), my pal Brian Alter and his duplex-neighbor Gary hosted their second annual backyard movie party, with me once again providing the films. Last year we were forced to retreat to Brian’s fortuitously-empty basement, but this year we were blessed with beautiful weather, complete with spectacular clouds shlooping across [...]
Our first Backyard Movie Party was held Labor Day Sunday (Sept. 4), 2005, at Brian and Gary’s duplex in Ballard.
We had to scramble and relocate into the basement of Brian’s half due to rain. Unfortunately, the rain also meant a bunch of folks didn’t show up as they didn’t realize we had the basement option. [...]