Fri 9/19-Sat 9/20 @ 7PM
A couple of decades ago, Cleveland filmmaker/designer Matthew T was known around the area for the film events he presented at venues such as the late great underground club Speak in Tongues and moCa Cleveland. While he hasn’t done any here since 2005, he’s continued to co-curate a film festival in Los Angeles.
But now he’s back, and he’ll be doing a two-night film festival at the Treelawn in the Waterloo Arts District. Each night will include a program of shorts and a feature documentary.
On Friday, he’ll screen Sue Carpenter’s 40 Watts from Nowhere, a new documentary about 40-watt Los Angeles pirate radio station KBLT, started by Carpenter, that broadcast from 1995-1998 before it was shut down. It includes interviews with Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Mike Watt (a station DJ) of Minutemen and Firehose, and Don Bolles of the Germs, recalling a special era of culture and music.
On Saturday, the feature is The Secret Lives Of Bill Bartell, another new film, made by David Markey, who also made 1991: The Year Punk Broke. Bartell, better known as Pat Fear of White Flag, was kind of a Forrest Gump type character who had an extensive network of relationships with people in the music scene, although it was never clear exactly what his role was, as his multifarious life was highly compartmentalized. On the film, his friends and acquaintances talk about what they knew about him and speculate about what might have been hidden.
Go here for tickets.
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