Monster Loteria Film Tour March 31, 2005

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
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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.