FREE screening of soYEARN, an unreleased film by Chris Habib
downstairs
Soundtrack by F.O.O.T. (Thurston Moore/Don Fleming/Jim Dunbar.) Habib is a NYC polymath who is equally adept at auteuring freaky films, running Visitor Design, webmastering for Sonic Youth, or co-running Protest Records with Thurston Moore. soYEARN was constructed over a period of about 10 years from grainy-but-beautiful 8mm footage of him, Paris, New Orleans, cemeteries, kooky street scenes, skaters, Sonic Youth off-the-clock, and various other poetic and intimate weirdnesses. The soundtrack is by the FOOT, a Fluxus-oriented trio consisting of long-time collaborators Moore and Fleming and Jim Dunbar, a name which will be recognizable to longtime DC musicheads as that of the former WHFS DJ, (who did his thing there way before the station began its long and undignified slide.) This film has never before been screened publicly, at least not in a non-YouTube venue.
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