Heap Us 'Round Our Ruins: josh weissbach's work

What Are These Ruins?

In September of 2009, experimental/underground filmmakers Ben Balcom and Josh Weissbach will begin Heap Us ‘Round Our Ruins: An Interstate Film Circuit. This film tour will last three to four months, as these two filmmakers travel across the United States showcasing their film work in alternative art spaces such as community art centers, microcinemas, bars, coffee shops, libraries, art galleries, and cinematheques.

Both filmmakers differ in their approach and subject matter, but are both unified by an interest in the vitality of the moving image as an experience of communication. With that said, this 90-minute film program will change nightly, trying to promote connections that speak to each other across these two collections of films.

1. 08/28/09 (Friday) - Grey Matter Books, Hadley, MA

2. 09/02/09 (Wednesday) - Franklin Academy Library, East Haddam, CT

3. 09/04/09 (Friday) - The Brick House, Turners Falls, MA

4. 09/05/09 (Saturday) - as220, Providence, RI

5. 09/08/09 (Tuesday) - Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY

6. 09/10/09 (Thursday) - Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, VT

7. 09/13/09 (Sunday) - Cha-Cha'razzi, Philadelphia, PA

8. 09/14/09 (Monday) - Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
9. 09/14/09 (Wednesday) - Durham Arts Place, Durham, NC

10. 09/19/09 (Saturday) - Sweat Records, Miami, FL

11. 09/20/09 (Sunday) - Miami Beach Cinematheque, Miami Beach, FL

12. 09/26/09 (Saturday) - Daacha, Gainesville, FL

13. 09/28/09 (Monday) - Athens Cine, Athens, GA
14. 9/29/09 (Tuesday) - Open Lot, Nashville, TN

15. 10/01/09 (Thursday) - Flying Monkey Arts, Huntsville, AL

16. 10/06/09 (Tuesday) - Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

17. 10/08/09 (Thursday) - Spider House, Austin, TX

18. 10/16/09 (Friday) - minicine?, Shreveport, LA

19. 10/24/09 (Saturday) - Guild Cinema, Albuquerque, NM

20. 10/30/09 (Friday) - Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder, CO

21. 11/07/09 (Saturday) - No Festival Required Microcinema at Space 55, Phoenix, AZ

22. 11/09/09 (Monday) - Documental at Unurban Coffeehouse, Santa Monica, CA

23. 11/12/09 (Thursday) - Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA

24. 11/17/09 (Tuesday) - Pirate Cat Radio Cafe, San Francisco, CA

25. 11/18/09 (Wednesday) - Vulcan Warehouses, Oakland, CA

26. 11/19/09 (Thursday) - ATA, San Francisco, CA
27. 11/28/09 (Saturday) - Island Coffeehouse, Langley, WA
28. 11/29/09 (Sunday) - Olympia Film Society at The Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA

29. 12/11/09 (Friday) - Noble & Superior Projects, Chicago, IL
30. 12/12/09 (Saturday) - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI

31. 12/14/09 (Monday) - Eye and Ear at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

32. 1/09/10 (Saturday) - Open Lot, St. Louis, MO

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

josh weissbach's work

The conceptual premise of Josh Weissbach’s film work, all shot on Super 8 and 16mm film, is based on the notion that as all humans inhabit space, space simultaneously inhabits humans, and within this, the main question that is raised is how does the relationship between intimacy, trauma, and space function in the life of every human being? Most recently, Weissbach completed interiors of the liquid gap, a 45-minute experimental documentary that focuses on Cuban exiles and the intimate sites of their lives before, while, and after crossing the liquid divide between Cuba and the United States. This film was made possible in part by The Cary Grant Film Scholarship from The Princes Grace Foundation. In addition, Weissbach has been working on The Addresses, a global film series that examines how humans experience the act of dwelling within the confines of a single address. The Addresses Volume 0 – 4 have taken Weissbach to Havana, Cuba, Venice, Italy and Montclair, New Jersey.