Sprockets against Thatcher

Films, Performance, and Music with Ross Lipman, Ruby Thicket, and The Philistine Liberation Orchestra, a Sprocket Society jernt chez the sainted fuckin' Rendezvous, 2322 2nd Avenue (in Belltown)

Sunday, April 13, $5.

(ED: Invisible SIFFBlog contrib Spencer Sundell is a guiding light in the hermetic filmystic confab that goes by the nom de publicite "The Sprocket Society.")

The Sprocket Society is proud to present the Seattle debut of Los Angeles filmmaker Ross Lipman with a program featuring an excerpt from his latest original work-in-progress - performed live as a Magic Lantern / slide show - plus a selection of his earlier experimental short films and documentaries. There will also be live music by Seattle's own Ruby Thicket, plus The Philistine Liberation Orchestra.

Ross Lipman's Keep Warm, Burn Britain! is a personal memoir of the squatting movement in East London during the 1980s. It chronicles the lives of the anarchists, outcasts, and punks who lived in a small enclave of abandoned buildings south of the Thames, known as "Squatter's Paradise." Tonight Lipman performs an excerpt of this work-in-progress as a Magic Lantern / slide show; ultimately it will be a feature-length 35mm film. It features music by Thoth, the legendary NY street performer who is the subject of an Academy Award-winning documentary short.

Personally, this is right up my squat house alley.