Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Craig Baldwin
E-mail: info@othercinemaDVD.com
Phone: 415.648.0654
Web: http://www.othercinemaDVD.comFacets Video and Other Cinema DVD Announce Distribution Partnership
(Chicago, IL) Facets Multi-Media, a premier distributor of critically acclaimed independent film has announced its DVD distribution agreement with Other Cinema DVD (OCD), one of the most highly regarded home video labels for alternative and underground film.
Founded little more than a year ago, Other Cinema DVD has published a plethora of innovative, exciting titles, including work from Craig Baldwin, Sam Green, Bill Morrison, and many others. The Other Cinema Digital project provides an alternative platform for the distribution of extraordinary film works. OCD celebrates peculiar visions and offbeat sensibilities, drawn from the contemporary underground as well as the archives. Be it auteur, exploitation, or industrial, OCD delivers a decidedly different audio-visual experience – opening up spaces both marvelous and dangerous.
“It took us a long time to find the right distributor but Facets was definitely worth the wait” says OCD director Noel Lawrence. Emphasizing alternative cinema, Other Cinema aims to open up avenues for Underground Film to reach a wider audience by expanding its outlets. By pairing with Facets, Other Cinema releases will now be included with the list of over 400 titles on the Facets label, as well as inclusion in the massive Facets Video Catalogue of over 60,000 DVD and video titles from around the world.
“We are extremely excited about this relationship,” says Facets Video Director of Sales Steve Bliss. “Facets has carefully chosen specialty video labels with which to expand our collection of exclusively distributed DVD titles over the past few years. In OCD we have found a group which shares our passion for cutting-edge cinema.”
Other Cinema DVD releases
In December and January, Facets will release four titles from the Other Cinema catalogue. These features are a cross section of the Other Cinema selection and are examples of the recent popular tendency to blur the lines between documentary and experimental film as well as illustrate OCD’s commitment to “celebrate peculiar visions and offbeat sensibilities.”
(more)Eerily foreshadowing 9-11, Johan Grimonprez’ dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y chronicles the history of skyjacking. Blending archival footage with found footage and home movies, Grimonprez explores the sea change between the image of the romantic skyjacker of the 60s and 70s and the anonymous suitcase bombers of the 80s and 90s. The New York Times says dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y is "exceptional for its juice, jazzy compelling fusion of social and aesthetic issues, and its stomach-churning power." Time Out calls it “an eccentric, roller coaster ride through history.”
On a lighter note, The Subject Is Sex presents a historical romp along the seamy side of sex in cinema. Drawn from curator Stephen Parr’s extensive 16mm film archives, this polymorphous program includes home movies, commercials, trailers, hygiene films, burlesque bits, peep show loops and more. A fun and well-designed montage of ADULTS ONLY content, The Subject is Sex and dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y will be released on December 28, 2004 and retail for $24.95.
In The Rainbow Man, Academy Award® nominated Sam Green (The Weather Underground) tells the story of ‘Rockin’ Rollen Stewart. A regular fixture at major sporting events throughout the 70s and 80s, Stewart gained fame by donning a rainbow-striped wig and waving ‘John 3:16’ banners for TV cameras. Called “brilliantly unnerving” by Film Comment, The Rainbow Man was awarded the Grand Prize at the USA Film Festival, Best Documentary at both the New York and Chicago Underground Film Festivals and selected as one of the best documentaries of 1998 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian.
Nomads and No-Zones compiles the work of two underground filmmakers, Greta Snider and Vanessa Renwick as they travel along the west coast, meeting punks, artists and other nomads. The San Francisco Bay Guardian says "...deft and often hilarious...[Greta] Snider's films exude an anarchist's glee in pulling the rug out from under the viewer's feet." The Washington Post commented that "[Vanessa Renwick's films,] video, art and music collide with edgy, confrontational, unpredictable and often exuberant intensity." Nomads and No-Zones and The Rainbow Man will be released on January 25, 2005 and retail for $24.95.
About Facets Video (http://www.facets.org/)
Facets licenses and distributes world and independent cinema on its own DVD label and exclusively distributes DVD product for other labels including Cinemateca, Accent Cinema, Arte Video, Life Size Entertainment, Polart, Ron Knight Media, and OtherCinemaDVD. The complete Facets Video Catalog is available online at www.facets.org or by calling 1-800-331-6197.
About OCD (http://www.othercinemaDVD.com)
The Other Cinema Digital project provides an alternative platform for the distribution of extraordinary film works. We celebrate peculiar visions and offbeat sensibilities, drawn from the contemporary underground as well as the archives. Be it auteur, exploitation, or industrial, OCD delivers a decidedly different audio-visual experience -- opening up spaces both marvelous and dangerous.
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