BYO.PPT (Bring Your Own PowerPoint) Returns to Oberlin, April 25th!
BYO.PPT: ESOTERIC LIGHTNING LECTURES!
Monday, April 25, 2011 @ 8pm
Fairchild Chapel
50 West Lorain Street
Oberlin, Ohio
This event is free and open to the public!
Co-presented by the Oberlin Film Co-op and Focus Group.
Hosted by The Two Davids. After Party at the Sco, featuring Lightning Bolt.
After playing to a packed house in 2009, the BYO.PPT (Bring Your Own PowerPoint) Event returns to Oberlin! Come and listen to speedy, 6-minute illustrated presentations on such unusual and diverse topics as the power of Friday, the powers of crystals, exorcisms, invasive species, moral panic, nail polish art, cargo shipping on the Great Lakes, and elementary school crushes (who later became drug dealers), plus everything in between.
Presentations will follow two rules:
1) Maximum 20 slides, 20 seconds for a slide
2) Content of the presentations cannot be related to the presenter’s day job or main area of study
Presenters include: Samantha Bass, David Burnham, Owen Campbell, Nasim Chatha, Allison Chomet, Kelly Crimmins, Matthew Crothamel, Cubby Dimling, Davey Field, Pete Freeman, Lily Gottschalk, Stephen Graves, David Greenberg, Rose Hermalin, Liz Lagno and Isabel Yellin, Sarah Michelson, Taylor Stanton, and Allison Swaim
About the Oberlin Film Co-op
The Oberlin Film Cooperative is a small, student-run organization dedicated to promoting and facilitating film and video making at Oberlin College and in the nearby community. In addition to supplying equipment and film stock, and teaching 16mm film production, the Co-op is a frequent sponsor of events like the BYO.PPT, the S.O.S. (Super8 Oberlin Showcase), and the Oberlin Film Festival.
About Focus Group
Focus Group is a roving, weekly screening series of student curated film and video programs. Events take place on Wednesday evenings (unless otherwise noted), at various locations throughout Oberlin. Focus Group was formed in February 2011 by the members of CINE 323: Exhibition Practices in the Media Arts, a Cinema Studies course at Oberlin College. All screenings are free and open to the public, and themed refreshments will typically be provided.
"Focus Group Screenings Bring Experimental Film to a Living Room Near You"
Article by Lizzie Conner
Published in The Oberlin Review
April 11, 2011
Screening Schedule April-May 2011
Wed, April 13 @ 8pm
TUNING IN: BROADCASTS OF ANIMATION + TECHNOLOGY
Curators: Sam Phillips and Kathleen Wright
Oberlin Cable Co-op (27 E. College St.)
Wed, April 20 @ 9pm
WE’RE ALL FROM THE SEA
Curators: Jacob Dancy and Melissa Barton
Tank Hall, Dining Room (110 E. College St.)
Mon, April 25 @ 8pm
BYO.PPT (BRING YOUR OWN POWERPOINT)
Co-presented with the Oberlin Film Co-op
Fairchild Chapel (50 W. Lorain St.)
Wed, April 27 @ 8pm
IDOL PLEASURES
Curators: Rowan Norlander-McCarty and Gil Spears
North Fields under the Bleachers
Fri, April 29 @ 7pm
OVER HER SHOULDER
Curators: Stella Byrne and Rose Hermalin
Hallock Auditorium, Environmental Studies Bldg (122 Elm St.)
Wed, May 4 @ 8pm
DUCK AND COVER
Curators: Liz Saltzman and Dan Siegelman
Mudd 050
Sat, May 7 @ 10pm
AUDIOVISIONS: A NIGHT OF ABSTRACT MUSICAL COMPUTER ANIMATION
Curators: Cordelia Alquist and Diego Cohen
Warner Center - Basement (30 N. Professor St.)
Wed, May 11 @ 9pm
HIDDEN IN PLAIN VIEW
Curators: Isabel Yellin and Jimmy Magliozzi
Tappan Square
Next Screening: wednesday april 13
Sam Phillips & Kathleen Wright present
TUNING IN: BROADCASTS OF ANIMATION + TECHNOLOGY
8:00 pm
the Oberlin Cable Co-op
27 E. College St.
free!
sugary snax & soda pop provided
The curators write: Our program consists of a series of short, experimental animations meditating on the state of broadcast media, consumer culture, and the analog/digital divide.
