[NEohioPAL]Monster Loteria Tour 3/31 @ GOPA

Mon Mar 28 09:22:46 PST 2005

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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE INDUSTRY  
AND
GOPA (GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART)
PRERSENTS

MONSTER LOTERIA TOUR

A PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND ANIMATION ABOUT EMOTIONALY 
DYSFUNCTIONAL MONSTERS, LOST LOVE, AND COMMUNISM BY CHICAGO FILMMAKERS 
JIM FINN & ARTHUR JONES.

THURSDAY MARCH 31ST 2005 @ 8PM

$5 BUX

<http://www.gorillasuit.com/monsterloteria>
<http://www.20000leagues.org>
<http://www.gopacleveland.org>

The Monster Lotería Tour program is a willfully eclectic mix of work 
from Jim Finn and Arthur Jones, two very different filmmakers who come 
out of Chicago's small but productive D.I.Y. art community.

Jim Finn's films are collages of his home videos, excerpts from TV and 
Hollywood movies and found footage, and are about love, politics and his 
pets. His latest series of shorts, entitled "La Lotería," is a group of 
experimental music videos loosely based on Mexican "Lotería" bingo 
cards. Also included in the program is his three-minute cult classic 
"wustenspringmaus" a homage to the most capitalist of rodents, the gerbil.

Arthur Jones is touring his newest work, "Monster Team," a 17 minute 
animation that looks like a standard Saturday morning children's 
cartoon, but dwells on adult themes like depression, apathy, and 
emotional paralysis. As a part of the screening Jones will show some of 
his other animated shorts and personally present an illustrated power 
point presentation.

The evening promises a little something for everyone and the filmmakers 
will be open for a Q & A afterwards.

GOPA is located at 2515 Church Street in Ohio City 44113, One street 
south of Detroit Avenue at West 25th Street.

Jim Finn (b. 1968, St. Louis)
Lives in Chicago and makes videos about small animals, love and 
communism. His house is a kind of MGM lot for experimental animal 
videos. His work has screened at the Rotterdam International Film 
Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, Cinematexas, and the Yerba 
Buena Center for the Arts. His work has also appeared on the PBS and in 
Harper's magazine. He is one of the organizers of the experimental Video 
Mundi festival at the Chicago Cultural Center and is currently working 
on a series of needlepoint portraits of South American communists.

Arthur Jones (b. 1974, Plainview Texas)
Is an animator and illustrator who studied at the Rhode Island School of 
Design. His animated shorts are fast-paced, meticulously detailed, 
creepy and cute. They have shown in the Chicago Underground Film 
Festival, Worm Film Series (Rotterdam), Chicago International Children's 
Film Festival, LA Shorts, and Gavin Brown Passerby Gallery in New York. 
His design work includes promotional paint-by-number kits for the public 
radio program This American Life, advertising for Thrill Jockey Records, 
and art direction for Dirty Found magazine. His online sketchbook, 
www.gorillasuit.com, receives thousands of hits a week and has been 
viewed by nerds the world over.

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20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE INDUSTRY   
AND 
GOPA (GALLERY OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ART) 
PRERSENTS 
 
MONSTER LOTERIA TOUR 
 
A PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM AND ANIMATION ABOUT EMOTIONALY DYSFUNCTIONAL
MONSTERS, LOST LOVE, AND COMMUNISM BY CHICAGO FILMMAKERS JIM FINN & ARTHUR
JONES. 
 
THURSDAY MARCH 31ST 2005 @ 8PM 
 
$5 BUX 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.gorillasuit.com/monsterloteria"><http://www.gorillasuit.com/monsterloteria></a> 
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.20000leagues.org"><http://www.20000leagues.org></a> 
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.gopacleveland.org"><http://www.gopacleveland.org></a> 
 
The Monster Lotería Tour program is a willfully eclectic mix of work from
Jim Finn and Arthur Jones, two very different filmmakers who come out of
Chicago's small but productive D.I.Y. art community. 
 
Jim Finn's films are collages of his home videos, excerpts from TV and Hollywood
movies and found footage, and are about love, politics and his pets. His
latest series of shorts, entitled "La Lotería," is a group of experimental
music videos loosely based on Mexican "Lotería" bingo cards. Also included
in the program is his three-minute cult classic "wustenspringmaus" a homage
to the most capitalist of rodents, the gerbil. 
 
Arthur Jones is touring his newest work, "Monster Team," a 17 minute animation
that looks like a standard Saturday morning children's cartoon, but dwells
on adult themes like depression, apathy, and emotional paralysis. As a part
of the screening Jones will show some of his other animated shorts and personally
present an illustrated power point presentation. 
 
The evening promises a little something for everyone and the filmmakers will
be open for a Q & A afterwards. 
 
GOPA is located at 2515 Church Street in Ohio City 44113, One street south
of Detroit Avenue at West 25th Street. 
 
Jim Finn (b. 1968, St. Louis) 
Lives in Chicago and makes videos about small animals, love and communism.
His house is a kind of MGM lot for experimental animal videos. His work has
screened at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, New York Underground
Film Festival, Cinematexas, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. His
work has also appeared on the PBS and in Harper's magazine. He is one of
the organizers of the experimental Video Mundi festival at the Chicago Cultural
Center and is currently working on a series of needlepoint portraits of South
American communists. 
 
Arthur Jones (b. 1974, Plainview Texas) 
Is an animator and illustrator who studied at the Rhode Island School of
Design. His animated shorts are fast-paced, meticulously detailed, creepy
and cute. They have shown in the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Worm
Film Series (Rotterdam), Chicago International Children's Film Festival,
LA Shorts, and Gavin Brown Passerby Gallery in New York. His design work
includes promotional paint-by-number kits for the public radio program This
American Life, advertising for Thrill Jockey Records, and art direction for
Dirty Found magazine. His online sketchbook, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.gorillasuit.com">www.gorillasuit.com</a>, receives
thousands of hits a week and has been viewed by nerds the world over. 
 
 
 
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