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November 18, 2003 - January 31, 2004 Alder Gallery Coburg, OR Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer January 2004 Ronnie Cramer Go 1. Go (Part One) 2. Go (Part Two) 3. Go (Part Three) 4. Go (Part Four) 5. Go (Part Five) 6. Go (Part Six) 7. Go (Part Seven) 8. Go (Part Eight) 9. Go (Part Nine) Recorded 1/24/04 at Teikyo Loretto Heights University | Denver, Colorado Produced by Ronnie Cramer January 6 - 24, 2004 Backus Art Gallery Fort Pierce, FL Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer January 14 - 30, 2004 Gallery 402 New York, NY Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer January 2004 Ronnie Cramer Pillow Girl and Other Songs of Romance 1. Pillow Girl 2. Confidential 3. Eve's Apple 4. House of Lust 5. Lover, Let Me Live 6. A Woman's Need 7. Apprentice Virgin 8. Man Trap Created for the Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver Risque invitational (2/04) Produced by Ronnie Cramer February 4 - 29, 2004 MFA Circle Gallery Annapolis, MD Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer February 5, 2004 Western State College Gunnison, CO Music/Sound-Art performance by Ronnie Cramer Screening of Ronnie Cramer's films The Window, Highway Amazon, 30 Miles and wHOLE February 5 - 20, 2004 Quigley Art Gallery Western State College Gunnison, CO Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer February 2004 Ronnie Cramer Juno 1. Ceres 2. Pallas 3. Juno 4. Vesta 5. Iris 6. Flora 7. Metis 8. Themis 9. Nysa 10. Cybele 11. Eros 12. Chiron Recorded 2/5/04 at Western State College | Gunnison, Colorado Produced by Ronnie Cramer February 12, 2004 Rock Island Denver, CO University of Denver Media Arts Festival Video-Music/Sound-Art performances by Ronnie Cramer, Trace Reddell and Brian Comerford Screening of Ronnnie Cramer's film HAbent and Replicas by Ronnie Cramer and Trace Reddell February 14, 2004 Museum of Contemporary Art | Denver Denver, CO Risque Invitational / Love4Sale Auction Music/Sound-Art by Ronnie Cramer February 2004 Ronnie Cramer The Salmon Chair The Salmon Chair (extended version in thirteen parts) Recorded 2/12/04 at Rock Island - Denver, Colorado Presented by the University of Denver Media Arts Festival Produced by Ronnie Cramer February 14 - March 21, 2004 Tubac Center of the Arts Tubac, AZ Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer February 20 - 29, 2004 Big Muddy Film Festival Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL Screening of Ronnie Cramer's films 30 Miles and Quiet Please Screening of Robert Arnold's film Zeno's Paradox featuring music by Ronnie Cramer March 4 - 7, 2004 Sedona International Film Festival Sedona, AZ Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles March 5, 2004 Durango Herald Durango, CO '30 Miles' is a neat idea executed poorly. The same stretch of Colorado road, one in 1980 and the other in 2003, is shown on split-screen. It's probably meant to show the changes in landscape, but the film moves far too quickly for you to get a sense of anything (except the pain in your eyeballs, which is vivid). - Nathaniel Miller March 6 - 14, 2004 Durango Film Festival Durango, CO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles March 12 - 18, 2004 Tiburon International Film Festival San Francisco, CA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles March 17 - 21, 2004 East Lansing Film Festival East Lansing, MI Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles March 18, 2004 Lansing State Journal East Lansing Film Festival 30 Miles | Director: Ronnie Cramer (USA); 4 minutes The concept: Put identical time-lapse car trips filmed 30 years apart side by side and watch them unfold. If nothing else, it's pretty hypnotic. And there isn't as much dramatic change in the 30-year span as you might expect. - Swartz March 19 - April 16, 2004 Las Vegas Arts Council Las Vegas, NM Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer March 21 - May 1, 2004 Masur Museum of Art Monroe, LA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer April 1 -3, 2004 Forward Hall Erie, PA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles April 2004 Full Throttle Magazine Cover art by Ronnie Cramer April 15 - 17, 2004 Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival Iowa City, IA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon April 16 - 22, 2004 Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee Kansas City, MO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles April 16, 2004 Kansas City Star Movie Listings 30 Miles (Ronnie Cramer): Two time-lapse accounts of the same 30-mile trip, taken 23 years apart and presented via split screen. - Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, Tivoli Theatre April 20 - May 14, 2004 Plano Art Association Plano, TX Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer April 23, 2004 MittenArtWorks.com Cinema Un-Verite I really want to like experimental film. I appreciate abstract painting and I like the idea that films might take on that same sense of presenting their ideas without narrative, without representation. So I give experimental film lots of chances, looking for meaning even if it's not being presented well, giving the filmmaker every benefit of the doubt. And yet, even with wanting to like it so much, the only thing I can say about the Ann Arbor Film Festival is that it is fast becoming a joke. The trouble with the films chosen for the Ann Arbor festival is that so many of them have no content and no sensitivity to the factor of time inherent in a moving image. At least judging from the selections chosen by the Ann Arbor festival, one would generally come to the conclusion that experimental filmmakers are devoted to technique instead of art. There is a 'one trick pony' phenomenon in which these filmmakers have found an interesting visual or compositing technique and proceed to show it to you and then nothing more. There is minimal or no content presented with the chosen technique, and because of that, any more than a 4-6 minutes of pure technique rapidly becomes boring. Sadly, the filmmakers seem insensitive to this fact and run these empty showcases of clever technique for 17 or more minutes, causing rapid aging and mindnumbing boredom in the audience. In contrast, the few experimental pieces we saw in East Lansing were actually pretty good. 30 Miles by Ronnie Cramer showed a speeded-up ride on a highway with footage from the present day on one side of the screen and footage from 25 years ago on the other. It was visually interesting, had some meaning revolving around what changes and what stays the same over time and was 4 minutes long. - Laura Fisher April 21, 2004 Interface Local 16 Washington, DC Screening of the films Replicas and Telharmonic by Trace Reddell and Ronnie Cramer April 25, 2004 PC World Ronnie Cramer's Cult Film Site There's no search engine, but with this collection of campy, corny, bizarre, and trashy movies for purchase (including such classics as You've Made Your Bed ... Now Die in It), who cares? April 25 - May 16, 2004 El Dorado Fine Arts Gallery Colorado Springs, CO Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer May 2004 Ronnie Cramer Out of the Silent Planet 1. Stars, Thick As Daisies on an Uncut Lawn 2. The Hunted Man's Irrational Instinct 3. Luxury and Squalor 4. The Anti-Climax of Fourteen Compulsory Cold Douches 5. The Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness 6. The Good of Humanity and All That A soundtrack for the C. S. Lewis novel; developed for Aimé Dontigny's Sine Fiction catalog. Produced by Ronnie Cramer May 1 - July 3, 2004 Swallow Hill Art Gallery Denver, CO Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer May 2 - 26, 2004 Marin Society of Artists Ross, CA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer May 5 - 30, 2004 Krempp Gallery Jasper Arts Center Jasper, IN Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer May 6, 2004 The Herald Entertainment: Weekend Ronnie Cramer of Denver is exhibiting intimate watercolor citiscapes. These capture images of storefronts, businesses and street people. Cramer, a graduate of the University of Denver, has been a professional artist for over 25 years. However, his creativity isn't limited to painting. He's an accomplished guitarist with the rock group Alarming Trends, a filmmaker and a motorcycle enthusiast. He created the Motorcycle Web Index. For more information, visit his web site at www.cramer.org/art. May 7 - 9, 2004 Trenton Film Festival Trenton, NJ Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please May 7 - June 5, 2004 Hilton Head Art League Hilton Head, SC Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer May 10 - 16, 2004 Forest Film Fest Portland, OR Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles May 16, 2004 Film Threat 30 Miles * * * * Un-rated, 4 Minutes, Scorched Earth Productions A 30-mile trip down a Colorado highway is experienced 23 years apart via split-screen. Black-and-white 8mm footage from 1980 on the left, and color digital video from 2003 on the right. Both have been shot in time-lapse mode, condensing the trip into less than four minutes. The camera(s) travel around bends and up and down hills as overpasses fly by simultaneously on both halves of the screen. Changes in the landscape between the two runs become apparent. A dirt off-ramp has been paved; a chain-link fence on the divider has been taken down. Even changes in Cramer himself are evident, as he seems to have mellowed over the last quarter century (he doesn’t pass on the right as often nowadays). The movie’s minimalist score is the only aspect of the production that is less than remarkable. It’s far too wowie-zowie, too eager to point out how fantastic the images are. Whether the grand design for this film was in Cramer’s head in 1980, or if it was a recent realization on how to get some use out of old footage, the end result is indisputably stunning and all too brief. - Christopher Zinsli May 19, 2004 Film Threat Quiet Please * * Un-rated, 2 Minutes, Scorched Earth Productions 'Filmmaker Ronnie Cramer recently submitted to a one-hour, on-camera interview for a documentary about independent directors. ‘Quiet Please’ is a film document of the (almost) two minutes of silence that occurred between Cramer’s responses.' It’s hard to come up with a better description than that. Audio engineers have been having fun stringing together 'outs' like this for decades, so it’s about time someone did it with video. If only the idea were as interesting on screen as it is on paper. - Christopher Zinsli May 27 - 30, 2004 Dubrovnik International Film Festival Dubrovnik, Croatia Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles June 1 - 15, 2004 Filmstock International Film Festival Bedfordshire, UK Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles Recipient of Concept Award June 2004 Magnar Nemzeti Filmarchivum National Film Archive of Hungary Szintén nagy sikert aratott a korábban a Sundance-en vetített Pol Pot születésnapja, Talmage Cooley rendezésében, amely a Legjobb Ötlet díját kapta megosztva a szintén amerikai Ronnie Cramer 30 mérföld (30 Miles) címu filmjével. A 'megosztás' itt azért is lényeges, mert Cramer filmje osztott képernyon mutatja be a címben említett 30 mérföldes útszakaszt huszonhárom év különbségével. June 3, 2004 Northfield Arts Council Northfield, MN Music/Sound-Art performance by Ronnie Cramer June 3 - July 23, 2004 Northfield Arts Council Northfield, MN Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer June 4 - July 18, 2004 Manhattan Arts Center Manhattan, KS Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer June 2004 Ronnie Cramer Out of the Silent Planet (Live) 1. Stars, Thick As Daisies on an Uncut Lawn 2. The Hunted Man's Irrational Instinct 3. Luxury and Squalor 4. The Anti-Climax of Fourteen Compulsory Cold Douches 5. The Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness 6. The Good of Humanity and All That Concert version of the C. S. Lewis soundtrack. Recorded 6/3/04 at the Northfield (Minnesota) Arts Guild using material originally developed for Aimé Dontigny's Sine Fiction catalog. Produced by Ronnie Cramer 2004 Antarctica Experienced Through Music Capsule Comments on CDs About Antarctica Ronnie Cramer: Around the World in Forty Minutes Colorado-based Cramer is a veteran musician, artist and independent filmmaker. His instrumental CD takes us on a musical trip around the world’s continents and seas, including the track Antarctica, a nebulous synthesizer soundscape. Scorched Earth Productions; www.cramer.org - Valmar Kurol, www.antarctic-circle.org June 11 - 20, 2004 Atlanta Film Festival Atlanta, GA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles June 14, 2004 Rocky Mountain News Lifestyles The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver and sponsor Holland & Hart will host the fourth annual 'Tribute to a Colorado Artist' honoring sculptor John DeAndrea, 6:30 p.m. June 24 at MCA/Denver, 1275 19th St., Sakura Square. Presentations will include remarks by Holland & Hart partner Michael Martin and art historian Nancy Tieken; a short film documenting DeAndrea's work by local filmmaker Ronnie Cramer; and a toast by DeAndrea's friends and collectors. - Dahlia Jean Weinstein June 15, 2004 Manhattan Mercury MAC Watercolor Studio: Inspirations Manhattan Arts Center Watercolor Studio exhibits 'Inspirations,' a collection from the studio accompanied by statements from the artists concerning their inspiration for painting. Also featuring watercolors by Denver artist Ronnie Cramer. The exhibit will remain open through July 17. The Manhattan Arts Center is located at 1520 Poyntz and open Monday through Friday 10-5 and Saturday 1-4. For more information, call 537-4420. June 16, 2004 Rocky Mountain News Summer at the Museum of Contemporary Art The Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver kicks off a summer of programs with its fourth annual 'Tribute to a Colorado Artist' event, which will honor John DeAndrea. The program at the museum will include a talk by Nancy Tieken and a short film by Ronnie Cramer on DeAndrea's work. - Mary Chandler June 23 - 27, 2004 VisionFest 04 Independent Showcase Cantor Film Center New York, NY Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles June 24, 2004 Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Denver, CO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film A Moment in Time June 25 - 27, 2004 San Antonio Underground Film Festival San Antonio, TX Screening of Ronnie Cramer's films 30 Miles, The Window, Quiet Please and Highway Amazon June 26, 2004 San Antonio Express-News A decade of underground films Adam Rocha isn't in it for the money, which is good. He's organized the San Antonio Underground Film Festival every year for the past decade and has not once broken even. Most of the money is generated by sales of festival T-shirts, posters and the tacos that his mother-in-law has cooked outside the theater. But Rocha has seen the festival grow, from 13 entries in its first year to more than 100 this year, with bigger and bigger audiences attending. He's helping filmmakers show their films and he's helping San Antonio see films it otherwise wouldn't. To Rocha, 32, that's success. The fact that he loses money each year doesn't daunt him. "I won't stop unless my wife threatens to divorce me," he said. Rocha will show more than 50 films at this year's festival, which runs Friday through Sunday at Sunset Station, 1174 E. Commerce St. Admission is $10 per day. The festival has come a long way from its first year, when Rocha received 13 entries, all shorts. When he first conceived of the event, he was working as a busboy, fresh out of film school at the University of Texas at Austin. He knew two things: He wanted to work in film, and he didn't want to move to New York or Los Angeles to do it. So he decided to start a film festival in San Antonio. Some naysayers told him the endeavor would be more successful in Austin, with its thriving film scene. But that's exactly why he thought San Antonio was the perfect location. Ronnie Cramer, whose documentary "Highway Amazon" (about a female bodybuilder who wrestles men in hotel rooms) will be screened at the festival in a shortened version, has been making films since the '70s but only recently began submitting them to festivals. "I've had films shown at impressive sounding venues with very small audiences, and at rinky-dink outlets that got them seen by a lot of people," Cramer said by e-mail. The committee behind the San Antonio Underground Film Festival prefers the latter. - Jessica Belasco July 16 - 18, 2004 da Vinci Film and Video Festival Corvallis, OR Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles July 28, 2004 Dayton City Paper Poetic Wanderings Do you remember being a child, lying in your bed, and drifting off to sleep to the soothing sound of your mom’s voice telling you a story that would guarantee sweet dreams? If so, then think of musician, filmmaker, poet and performance artist Will Davis as your mom, except that his soothing voice is accompanied by ambient, mood-bending electronic music and his stories can only guarantee that your dreams won’t be terribly sweet. In 2003, Davis honed his live act and became the first performance artist to perform at the Ohio Arts Council’s Riffe Gallery when he presented his epic techno-poem, Escape From Earth, in honor of the celebration of flight. The poem intertwined the diary writings of the Wright Brothers with Davis’ own stories about flying. “I wanted to tell the story of the Wright Brothers and their achievement in flight a little differently by making flight a metaphor for personal growth,” he explained. In addition to the spoken word, Escape from Earth carried a digital element that included sounds of birds, storms, and simulated sounds of the Wright Flyer. “I tried to use a soundtrack on Escape From Earth that was very expressionistic and surreal,” he said. The poem will be featured in a national conference relating to art and technology this fall alongside the work of Ronnie Cramer and Laurie Anderson. - Kris Neises July 29 - 31, 2004 Raetihi Film Festival Raetihi, New Zealand Premiere screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl July 2004 Ronnie Cramer Metropolis 1. Metropolis 2. The Day Shift 3. The Pleasure Garden 4. The Master of Metropolis 5. 11811 6. The Robot 7. Another Meeting 8. Catacombs 9. Tower of Babel 10. Until Tomorrow 11. Rotwang 12. The Cathedral 13. A Prisoner 14. Maria / Robot 15. The Copy is Perfect 16. Dance of Flesh and Blood 17. An Excuse 18. The Time Has Come 19. To the Central Power House 20. Open the Doors 21. Where Are Your Children 22. The World Going to the Devil 24. The Hands, the Brain and the Heart A new soundtrack for the classic Fritz Lang film Produced by Ronnie Cramer July 2004 Various Artists To Ancient Noise 1. brekekekexkoaxkoax - Kayeets Charak Zamar 2. aodl - Attacking it With a Fork, Edition 3 3. Fred Yarm - Cats Eye bath Tub 4. Saluki Regicide - Stinging Nettle 5. Spagirus - Jasna Beat 6. Naturhistorische Museum der Klänge - Wrakhout 7. mystified - Ghosts of the Band 8. thE sounD of dirT - Dark 9. Djinnestan - A Trickle 10. Rafael Flores - Domestic 11. Kava Project - From Earth to Rust 12. forma - the spanish collage 13. C. Reider - vian ii-v 14. David Leith - Bottle Cart Etude 15. Tree Helicopter - Kiwi 16. Ronnie Cramer - Machinist Cavatina 17. J. Dippold - The Pot That Called The Kettle Back 18. Onemancult - Untitled A Webbed Hand Release [wh024] Compiled by C. P. McDill 'Manipulated environmental sounds. Whether field recordings, found sounds, radio snippets, or other odd recorded artifacts of audio, these elements are worked by sound artists in interesting and often startling ways.' August 6 - 19, 2004 Danforth Gallery Livingston, MT Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer August 6 - 7, 2004 Mini-Cinema Film Festival Fairmont, WV Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film The Window August 12 - September 26, 2004 Old Court House Arts Center Woodstock, IL Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer August 29 - September 12, 2004 Placerville Arts Association Placerville, CA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer September 3 - 26, 2004 State of the Art Gallery Ithaca, NY Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer September 4, 2004 Three Eagle Trail Art Gala Three Lakes, WI Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer September 10, 2004 Ledger-Enquirer Columbus, GA One is a glimpse of life from a schizophrenic's point of view. Another catapults folks into the world of a rape victim's tortured memories. Still another brings a camera into Columbus drag clubs little seen by most people in the city. If there's an undercurrent to all the short films presented Saturday at the annual Chattahoochee Film & Video Festival, it's a somber one. Films chosen for the two-hour screening are mostly serious in nature and a bit darker than the fare in years past. Roger Nygard, this year's judge for the films and himself an independent filmmaker, can speculate why. 'We've gone through a pretty dark period in the last year, and artists reflect society in their movies,' says Nygard, who is most famous for 'Trekkies,' a documentary about obsessive fans of 'Star Trek.' The festival features entries from around the globe, and formats ranging from straight documentary to abstract. A Mexican piece called 'Danzante,' by Sergio Batiz, both celebrates a traditional dance and laments its disappearance. Ronnie Cramer's 'Pillow Girl' takes girlie images from vintage pulp fiction and morphs from one to another in what becomes a disorienting kaleidoscope around the sultry female form. - Brad Barnes September 11, 2004 Chattahoochee Film and Video Festival Columbus, GA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl September 11 - October 3, 2004 Novato Art Center at Hamilton Field Novato, CA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer September 16 - 19, 2004 Great Lakes Independent Film Festival Roadhouse Theatre For Contemporary Art Erie, PA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl September 17 - 23, 2004 Cinema Paradise Film Festival Honolulu, HI Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl September 17 - October 9, 2004 Art Center of Estes Park Estes Park, CO Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer September 21, 2004 CinemaSlam Michigan Theater Ann Arbor, MI Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles September 23 - 26, 2004 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival Birmingham, AL Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles September 25 - November 6, 2004 Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Athens, GA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl September 26, 2004 Alamo Draft House San Antonio, TX Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon September 29, 2004 NonStarvingArtists.com R E L A T I V E : Photographing Domesticity Musician/artist Ronnie Cramer depicts comical, yet disturbing views of domestic life through manipulations of those enduring accompaniments to domestic life; the covers of lurid, vintage paperbacks and magazines. In his video, "Pillow Girl," the illustrated cover figures morph from one story to the next, accompanied by a synthesized soundscape created by converting visual scans of the covers into digitized sound forms. Through nearly 200 covers the viewer is taken on a thought-provoking journey of history, sound and representation. (Cramer will visit ATHICA from Denver, Colorado for a closing performance event on Saturday, November 6th, which will feature an extended live performance using "Pillow Girl" imagery.) ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Inc. Chase Street Warehouses, Unit 3 (entrance on Tracy St. off Barber), Athens, Georgia 30603-1604. Phone 706.208.1613. Visit the website www.athica.org October 1 - 31, 2004 Williamson County Art Guild Georgetown, TX Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 1 - 3, 2004 Coney Island Film Festival New York, NY Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl Named Best Experimental Film October 1 - 3, 2004 Quittapahilla Film Festival Lebanon Valley College Annville, PA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles October 1 - 10, 2004 Raindance Film Festival London, UK Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl October 1 - November 16, 2004 Keyes Gallery Springfield, MO Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 2 - 30, 2004 ACC Gallery National Society of Artists 22nd Annual National Show Alvin, TX Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 4, 2004 Counselor Artists' Reception for New Broad Center Exhibit 'New York Perceptions' October 6 Attention art lovers: As part of the continuing series of art exhibits mounted in the Shepard and Ruth K. Broad Student Center, the Law School and the Organization of Independent Artists (OIA) have announced the opening of 'New York Perceptions.' An artists' reception will take place on Wednesday, October 6, in the Student Center at 6 p.m. All are invited to enjoy refreshments and meet the artists. 'New York Perceptions' is both a contemporary vision and a loving look at the Big Apple from four artists from the New York metropolitan area and one from Colorado. The realistic oil and acrylic paintings of Elliot Appel and Robert Feinland depict the streets and architecture of the city’s changing face. Matt Cervenka’s collage and mixed media, with their distortions and bold color, convey the emotions of living in New York. The city’s vitality and vibrancy are emphasized in the photos of Remo Cosentino. Moments in time and moods of the city are captured in the watercolors of Ronnie Cramer, picturing street life and people in the neighborhoods of Manhattan. The exhibit officially opens on Monday, October 4, and will remain up through November 12. October 4 - November 12, 2004 New York Law School New York, NY Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 5 - 29, 2004 Texas Artists Museum Port Arthur, TX Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 6 - 27, 2004 Gallery 402 New York, NY Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 7 - 10, 2004 Taos Mountain Film Festival Taos, NM Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film The Window October 10 - 12, 2004 Miami University Interactive Media Forum Oxford, OH Music/Sound-Art performance by Ronnie Cramer Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl Screening of Ronnie Cramer's McLuhan PSA film series October 10 - 24, 2004 Rio Brazos Art Exhibition Tarleton State University Granbury, TX Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 14 - 16, 2004 Cape Fear Independent Film Network Wilmington, NC Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please October 14 - 17, 2004 Simrishamn International Art Film Festival Galleri Valfisken Simrishamn, Sweden Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles October 15 - 17, 2004 Griffon International Film Festival Missouri Western State College St. Joseph, MO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl October 16 - 18, 2004 Miami Short Film Festival Miami, FL Screening of Ronnie Cramer's films Pillow Girl and Highway Amazon Pillow Girl named Best Experimental Film Highway Amazon named Best Documentary October 21 - 24, 2004 Winslow Film Festival Winslow, AZ Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles October 23, 2004 Springfield Missouri News-Leader Look for bright spots in 'Plein Air 2004' exhibit Classic plein-air painting, which took 19th century artists out of the studio and into the great out of doors, has a sense of the immediate to it that this show does possess in a few instances. The best of the watercolors are two works by Denver artist Ronnie Cramer, who took honors for a small piece titled 'Uphill,' but I liked his 'Salem Market' better. Cramer's works look almost like batiks; there's a feeling of layered colors to them. His street market is well-composed and interesting, and it doesn't include a single wagon, barn or flower, which makes it a refreshing change in this show. - Camille Howell October 26 - December 11, 2004 Widener University Gallery Chester, PA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 27, 2004 Rocky Mountain News Fab 5 Denver's version of the Fab 5 from Queer Eye For The Straight Guy are up for grabs. Their extreme makeover services for a straight man will be an auction item during Dinner With Dali, a fund-raiser Thursday in the Seawell Ballroom for the Museum of Contemporary Art. MCA's director/curator Cydney Payton was the brains behind the fab and fun package. Local filmmaker Ronnie Cramer shot and edited the delightful DVD featuring the Fab 5 in various Denver venues that will be shown prior to bidding. - Penny Parker October 28, 2004 Denver Performing Arts Complex Denver, CO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's films Dinner with Dali and The Fab Five October 28 - November 7, 2004 Leeds International Film Festival Leeds, UK Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles October 30, 2004 Canadian International Annual Film Festival Toronto, Ontario Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film The Salmon Chair Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film The Window Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film wHOLE (30 Miles named Best Student Entry and Best Student Experimental Film) October 31, 2004 Boston Globe Pinned 'They want to feel your strength,' says Christine Fetzer, the blond bodybuilder who makes an unusual living wrestling men on beds across the country in Ronnie Cramer's documentary short Highway Amazon. 'I feel like I'm doing something really bizarre and out there. I feel like I go places nobody goes.' Like, say, hotel rooms. The bikini-clad, muscle-flexing Fetzer is one of the attractions in the fifth annual Chlotrudis Short Film Festival, which also includes dramas, comedies, and animation. The festival opens Monday at the Coolidge Corner Theatre and continues Wednesday at the Brattle Theatre. For information, visit www.chlotrudis.org. - Rebecca Ostriker October 31, 2004 - January 1, 2005 Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts Fredericksburg, VA Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer October 31, 2004 Flagpole Magazine Out There! 'RELATIVE' CLOSING EVENT Closing reception for ATHICA’s 'Relative: Photographing Domesticity.' Features The Athens Boys Choir and visiting New Media artist Ronnie Cramer. He will be performing an extended version of his piece 'Pillow Girl.' Athens Institute for Contemporary Art on Saturday, Nov. 6 from 8 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. Gallery open at 7:30 p.m. Suggested donation: $6—$9. 208-1613, www.athica.org. November/December 2004 Art Papers Exhibition Listings GEORGIA ATHICA: Athens Institute for Contemporary Art, Fall Exhibits: 9/25/04-11/7/04, 'Relative: Photographing Domesticity', photo-based work, curators: Edwyna Arey & Michael Marshall, in conjunction w/SESPE conference 10/22. Closing performances 11/6, 8pm, Spoken word by Athens Boys Choir & Pillow Girl by Ronnie Cramer from Denver, CO. November 2004 Ronnie Cramer Pillow Girl Lives Again 1. Pillow Girl 2. Confidential 3. Eve's Apple 4. House of Lust 5. Lover, Let Me Live 6. A Woman's Need 7. Apprentice Virgin 8. Man Trap A live re-creation of the sound art originally produced for the Pillow Girl CD. Recorded 10/22/04 at the Interactive Media Forum, Miami University | Oxford, Ohio Produced by Ronnie Cramer November 1, 2004 New Media Missive Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication - University of Georgia ATHICA Performance (11/6) Ronnie Cramer and Athens’ Boy Choir. On Saturday, 11/06/04 from 8pm to 9:15pm the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art (ATHICA) will host a closing reception for the exhibition, “Relative: Photographing Domesticity.” The event will include performances by new media artist Ronnie Cramer and the Athens Boy Choir. More at http://athica.org/ November 1 - 3, 2004 Chlotrudis Short Film Festival Brookline, MA (11/1) Cambridge, MA (11/3) Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon November 3 - 26, 2004 Impact Artist Gallery Buffalo, NY Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer November 4 - 10, 2004 Marquee ART 'Relative' closing performance event and NEGAD thank-you party--NEGAD volunteer party at 6:30 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. for gallery viewing, performance from 8-9:15 p.m., ATHICA: Athens Institute fro Contemporary Art, 160 Tracy St.: performance by Athens Boys Choir and visiting new media artist Ronnie Cramer. November 5 - 6, 2004 Delta Film Festival Manteca, CA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles November 6, 2004 Athens Banner-Herald Today's Best Bets 'Relative' closing performance event and NEGAD thank-you party--NEGAD volunteer party at 6:30 p.m., doors open at 7:30 p.m. for gallery viewing, performance from 8-9:15 p.m., ATHICA: Athens Institute fro Contemporary Art, 160 Tracy St.: performance by Athens Boys Choir and visiting new media artist Ronnie Cramer. November 6, 2004 Flagpole Magazine RONNIE CRAMER (ATHICA) The Colorado-based experimental musician/visual artist will perform a live, extended version of 'Pillow Girl,' a morphing video-animation of nearly 200 lurid, vintage paperback covers which is accompanied by a haunting soundtrack. 8 p.m. November 6, 2004 Athens Institute for Contemporary Art Athens, GA Music/sound-art performance by Ronnie Cramer November 6 - December 29, 2004 Leslie Powell Foundation/Gallery Lawton, OK Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer November 11 - 21, 2004 St. Louis International Film Festival St. Louis, MO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl November 12, 2004 Alameda Film Festival Alameda, CA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles November 12 - 20, 2004 L’Alternativa2004 Independent Film Festival of Barcelona Barcelona, Spain Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please November 18, 2004 Westword Fresh Film There's a lot to dig at the Underground Film Festival Denverite Ronnie Cramer's experimental short Pillow Girl will show alongside more than fifty national and international films, including Jane Doe, Winter Sea, Who Killed Target 1967? and 666: A Gothic Romance. DUFF's frames from the underground will shine on three separate screens through Sunday: Revoluciones Collective Art Space, 3519 North Brighton Boulevard; Theatre du Quirque, 2119 East 17th Avenue; and the Oriental Theater, 4335 West 44th Avenue. All shows are for fans eighteen years and up; tickets are $8 for each film and available at the door. - Kity Ironton November 18 - 21, 2004 Denver Underground Film Festival Denver, CO Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl Named Best Animated Short December 2004 Ronnie Cramer The Master of Metropolis 1. The Day Shift 2. 11811 3. Another Meeting 4. Catacombs 5. Ten Hours 6. Tower of Babel 7. Until Tomorrow 8. Maria 9. The Cathedral 10. A Prisoner 11. The Copy is Perfect 12. An Excuse 13. Central Power House 14. Open the Doors 15. Where Are Your Children 16. The Hands, the Brain and the Heart 17. The Master of Metropolis Recorded November 6, 2004 at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art | Produced by Ronnie Cramer December 1 - 5, 2004 Santa Fe Film Festival Santa Fe, NM Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl December 2 - 3, 2004 Shock-a-Go-Go Film Festival Vine Theatre, 6321 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl December 9 - 12, 2004 Bahamas International Film Festival Nassau, Bahamas Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl December 15, 2004 CinemaSlam Michigan Theater Ann Arbor, MI Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon December 18 - 19, 2004 Big Apple Film Festival Anthology Film Archives New York, NY Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles December 29, 2004 Internet Movie Database Back Street Jane Infinitely better than 'Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead' This is a black-and-white, 16 mm, do-it-yourself film noir by Denver's most famous low-budget film auteur Ronnie Cramer. It actually shows some of the same promise as some of Stanley Kubrick's or Sam Fuller's early film noirs from the 50's except it has a very late 80's plot with two sexy female wannabe criminals trying to rip-off a vicious female coke dealer and her two male accomplices. People who have seen this film at all dismiss it as a Tarantino imitation, even though it was made several years before 'Reservoir Dogs' when Tarantino was just another annoying video store clerk. I actually met the director once back in 1992. He was selling this film himself at the time, but it was going nowhere because it was filmed in black-and-white. Unfortunately, after this film he had gotten involved in a truly awful project called 'Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend' which was little more than a lot of shot-on-video footage of some not-very-attractive Denver and Lincoln, Nebraska strippers strung together by the most bare-bones plot imaginable. Still it got a glowing review from 'drive-in movie critic' Joe Bob Briggs and was a big hit, and Cramer would probably STILL be making sequels to it if his male lead Andrew Scott (who I also met once) hadn't been tragically killed in a 7-11 hold-up. (Similar events might well have happened to Kubrick or Fuller if they had had to work in the 1990's DIY film market). This film isn't as good as Kubrick's 'Killer's Kiss' or Fuller's 'The Naked Kiss' of course, but it's infinitely better than the other Denver noir, the horrible big-budget Andy Garcia movie 'Things to Do in Denver When Your Dead'. It's not wall-to-wall breasts like Cramer's other movies, but it does have a shot of star Sheila Ivy Traister (who I, unfortunately, never did get to meet) in her underwear that's worth all the stripper footage in the other films combined. She is very good and very sexy as the hard-as-nails coke dealer. The ending is truly shocking, even if it is not as effective as it could be due to the (very) low-budget. Cramer's band Alarming Trends does the soundtrack and they're not bad either. See it if you can find it. - Lazarillo