MC Shanger & Carlo Coen's 35' radio interview on dee CINEPHOBIA show over at dee Tdots CKLN 88.1-FM - (2:40-3:15pm on Fri, Aug 10, 2007)
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CINEPHOBIA
(Friday: 2:30 - 3pm) - w/host : Stuart "Feedback" Andrews
"Can you thrill to Russ Meyer's Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens and yet swoon to the works of F.W. Murnau? Would you willingly gobble up free tickets to some of the city's most colourful screenings? Then join host Stuart Feedback Andrews and his gaggle of miscreant Cinephobiacs with call-ins from the CKLN listeners as we celebrate the unsung heroes of independent cinema, commiserate on the deplorable state of the Canadian film industry and maniacally delve into an assortment of juicy topics often plucked out of thin air in a mad desperate panic at the last possible minute." - CKLN.fm (((A big-up thanx to "Moondog's Ballroom" host, Daibhid James, for letting us run 15' into his show - on Friday 3- 5pm!!!)))
(L-R) Carlo Coen & MC Shanger @Scream in the Park's afterparty (Toronto: Monday, July 9, 2007) - Y'arrr!!! (Photo: Kathleen Emerald)
(L-R) MC Shanger, Maurizio Guarini (Argento/Goblin composer), Carlo Coen, Cinzia Cavalieri (Argento's music editor & consultant) & Kathleen Emerald (back to us)
@ Jackie Brown's birthday party... (on one wild Sudbury Saturday night in dee Tdot, Aug 11, 2007) - (Photo: Carlos Weisz)
About Carlo Coen:
Carlo Coen (b. 1951) has been the Director of the Italian Cultural Institutes in New Delhi, Melbourne and Toronto, and directed the Cinema Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome for 3 years. He has been in the Italian Foreign Service since 1981, until he decided to call it a day: he quit the job, and settled in Toronto. We do not know yet if this was a welcome acquisition for Torontonians or not. Most probably, no one has noticed any change at all. He has been a film buff all his life, devouring any kind of film, but as an academic he is definitely a self-taught one, as he graduated in Philosophy at the University of Rome. He started programming films in Rome a long, long time ago, in his film club, soon after his graduation. Then, in India, Australia and Canada, he could finally get paid for his activity, much to his relief. He has written a few things on Italian and Indian Cinema and has continued his activity of programmer both in Italy and abroad (the Italian Film Festival and the Art of Love Film Festival in Toronto, quoted only in the hope that somebody heard something about these Festivals). At present he teaches Italian Cinema at the University of Toronto, in the Department of Italian Studies, where he enrolled as a PhD student. After so many years spent around the world, busy with all the chores a foreign service official is supposed to perform, he could finally stop spinning and now he can gather his thoughts. His doctoral thesis (in progress, very far from completion) will be on the Italian Horror cinema. Of course, Mario Bava will be a pivotal figure in his research.
About MC Shanger:
"Gio. Shanger” was born in Australia in 1959. Son of Italian parents, they soon moved to Italy, and eventually settled in Toronto in 1969. A 1986 film studies degree from Ryerson Polytechnical Institue in Toronto, led to a Sr Motion Picture Technologist positon in that department, where he worked until 1996. He left to pursue his full-time experimentations in new ways of approaching documentary filmmaking. As a result, he has made film history with Ice Rushse: An Icelandic Odyssey, an experimental-documentary about the spirituality and freedom in Iceland. For the first time, the visuals have been shot "1:1", that is everything that he shoots, in the order that he shoots it in, is the final film and then wrote a sound design which was recorded in front of a live audience, all in one take, with no overdubs! He permanently moved to Iceland between 2000-04 as a result of making his film Ice Rushes – the second film of his Rushes trilogy, which he conceived of as an exploration into his "1:1" style, by means of a tribute to his three mentors. The first film is Rail Rushes: A Railroad Odyssey (a tribute to Stan Brakhage) and the last is New York Rushes: A Stanley Kubrick Odyssey (both remain unfinished). Ice Rushes is a tribute to my number one filmmaker and the one that has influenced my work the most, Robert Flaherty. An Angry Black Dog Farts at Midnight is the epilogue to the Rushes trilogy. It’s strange stereo filmmaker approach to making a film, It’s premise is simple: can two filmmakers make a 1:1, with one camera. The answer folks is NO! So we used two cameras. Enough said there folks!!!
The Rushes Trilogy is the result of over twenty years of experimentation in his "1:1" style. He has made only eighty S-8 & 16mm films over that time, but has amassed over 700 "films" on video, mostly documenting the live performance arts in Toronto since 1980 until the present-day. Yes folks I have made almost 800 films (please don’t call dee Guinness folks). As a hermit filmmaker, he almost always works alone. Ice Rushes and ...Black Dog... are only his second and third films that he has allowed to tour on the film festival circuit; where he never applied, but rather, was asked by astute programmers. "One hundred years from now, I will be the last filmmaker on earth. Traveling with my film projector and trusty dog, I would be hand-processing the film that I shot that-day, and narrating my films at night to anyone that wants to remember what film was like – since by then we will all have holodecks."
On Oct 11, 2006 he started ShangOrama.com, which is an extention of all the film exhibition experimentations of The Bio Reykjavik Film Collective (Iceland), of which he co-founded in 2002, and was it’s head for its first three years. Hence why ShangOrama.com is dee world’s only Icelandic cinema outside Iceland. Enjoy this evening folks!!! Y’arrr!!! Oh, he authored two books: Kubrick: A Biothon Biography, and dee 36-hr Stanley Kubrick Biothon programme (over 4000 Icelanders showed up for this one, that's 1.5% of dee whole Icelandic population folks; "Biothon" means "movie marathon" in Icelandic). For dee last three-years he has been working on a mammoth book on just Frank Zappa dee filmmaker (tentatively) called, Studio Z: dee Frank Zappa filmmaker-filmography!!!
See you here @MAJLIS: 163 Walnut Ave.
---MAJLIS is exactly 1-1/2 bks due S. of Trinity-Bellwoods Church [which is on Queen W]; 1-bk W. Niagara [2-Little Lights W. Bathurst]---[[[View Map]]]
Browse our archives:
Event #5 - "Dario Argento's Goblin Trilogy" (Sat, Aug 25, 2007)
Event #4 - "a 20-hr Mario Bava mini-me Movie Marathon" (Fri&Sat, Aug 17&18, 2007)
Event #3 - "Remember Our Fallen Filmmakers Night!!!" (Sat, Nov 11, 2006)
Event #2 - "2 Banned Hell-o-ween Films" (Tues, Oct 31, 2006)
Event #1 - "12-hr 'Friday dee 13th' Movie Marathon" (Fri dee 13th of Oct, 2006)
CONTACT & Mailing List additions: shanger@shangorama.com
© 2007 Gio. Shanger!!!