Friday, April 3rd - SUBDIVISION : Special One-off Warehouse Party
DJ's and Dub-step all nite long!
RUSKO Live Performance w/Ron Azlan - In from LONDON!
FLUFFTRONIX
RX and CHAE HAWK Live Performance
Presented by Rad Summer, Subdivision, Mishka NY and Palms Out Sounds
10pm - 21+ - BYOB - $10 adv - $13 DOS
Buy Tickets at Radsummer.com
Saturday April 4th - The 3rd Annual Zombie Butt Touch
Featuring Professional zombie makeup artists by the resident ZBT face destroyers
- 2 rooms of mind-bending electronic dance music
-An immersing black-light reactive environment
-Intense visual projections
-FREE BEER!!!!!!
Dancefloor Navigators:
Super Galactic Expansive (Supersensible Science)
Kilowatts (Native State Rec, Gaian Mind)
Unwashed Tomato (Unwashed Rec)
Thomas Schreiber (Rizumu)
Blame the Kid (Cold Hands Collective)
Eg~bot & Lauryn (Gaian Mind, Peak Rec)
Karmakanik & Orbicles (Gaian Mind, PSI)
Hypnotoad (Light-o-Matic/PSI)
JP & Esther (Soma Collective)
Blacklight Art by Daya Cayung
Visual Projections by Peter Parker
9pm - $10 admission includes beer and zombification 21+ w/ ID
Official Afterparty for Best of Backseat Film Festival at International House!
Sat April 4th at 9:30pm at the International House - 3701 Chestnut St in Philly!
The Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest is showcasing the Best of the Backseat Film Festival as a special 2 hour screening block and we're screening some 2009 Award winning shorts as well! We're honored to be a part of it and we'll be screenings our favorite shorts from the last 7 years! You can see the full schedule and get tix here!!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
April 3-4th: RUSKO Dubstep Night, Zombie Butt Touch, Best of Backseat Film Festival!
Friday, March 27, 2009
March 27-28 - Philly Ska and Found Footage Festival
Fri, March 27th - Philly Ska Presents: Hub City Stompers and King Django
Hub City Stompers (CD Release!), King Django, Wareika Hill, and the Forthrights
$12 - All Ages - 7:30pm
www.phillyska.com for more info and tix
Sat, March 28th - Found Footage Festival with Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher
The Found Footage Festival is a one-of-a-kind event compiles more than an hours worth of footage from videos that were found at garage sales and thrift stores and in warehouses and dumpsters throughout the country. Curators Pickett and Prueher host each screening in-person and provide their unique observations and commentary on these found video obscurities. From the curiously-produced industrial training video to the forsaken home movie donated to Goodwill, the Found Footage Festival resurrects these forgotten treasures and serves them up in a lively celebration of all things found.
Among the new clips to be featured in the show:
; 17 workplace sexual harassment videos, edited down to three minutes of just the best reenactments
; A brand-new collection of exercise videos featuring Playgirls 1985 Man of the Year, a scantily-clad Angela Lansbury, and a guru who calls himself The Laughing Yogi.
; Video contributions by Chris Elliott and David Cross
; An instructional video on how to toilet train cats
The Found Footage Festival was founded in New York in 2004 and has gone on to sell out hundreds of shows across the U.S. and Canada, including the HBO Comedy Festival at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal. The festival has been featured on National Public Radio, ABC World News, Jimmy Kimmel Live, and G4 TVs Attack of the Show, and has been named a Critics Pick in dozens of publications, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle and The Chicago Tribune.
"Skull Crushingly Funny" - The Onion
8pm - $10 - Free beer!
BUY ADVANCE TIX NOW!
Check out the offical trailer for the festival here!
www.foundfootagefestival.com
www.myspace.com/foundfootagefestival
Also, we're proud to announce all our Backseat Film Festival 2009 award winners as follows;
Best Feature Film - Run! Bitch Run! - Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best Short Film – Nomansland – Dir. Scott Belyea
Best Documentary - Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero - Dir. Lee Demarbre
Best Music Video - Turbotronics "Corporate Lady" – Dir. Jessica Burstein & Robbie Norris
Best Animation - God of Tears – Dir. Max Margulies & Naoko Masuda
Best Local Filmmaker - Going Public – Dir. Douglas Poland
Best Soundtrack - Blood on the Highway – Dir. Barak Epstein & Blair Rowan
Best Movie Title - (tie) Run! Bitch Run! / You All Fucking Deserve It – Dirs. Joseph Guzman / Justin Powers
Best Trailer - Run! Bitch Run! – Dir. Joseph Guzman
Best SPFX - Eel Girl – Dir. Paul Campion
Best Drinking Movie - Sex Galaxy – Dir. Mike Davis
Best Breasts - National Lampoon’s The Stoned Age – Dir. Adam Rifkin
Best Cars - Revenge of the Hellcat – Dir. Natalee Dacquisto
Best Zombies - I Love Sarah Jane – Dir. Spencer Stussy
Best Robots - Attackazoids! – Dir. Brian Lonano
Most Disgusting - Attack of the Staph Spider – Dir. Aramis Sartorio
Weirdest - Dec. 2666 – Dir. James Hollenbaugh & Derek Roden
Funniest - Jones Big Ass Truck Rental and Storage – Dir. Pedro Castro
Staff Favorites - Altamont Now / Puppet Rodeo – Dirs. Joshua von Brown / Kevin Maher
Filmmaker Appreciation - Adam Rifkin / Bam Margera / Bill Plympton
You can get info on all the movies on our official website!
And dont forget, the Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest is showcasing the Best of the Backseat Film Festival as a special 2 hour screening block and we're screening some
2009 Award winning shorts as well! It all goes down on Sat April 4th at 9:30pm
at the International House - 3701 Chestnut St in Philly! We're honored
to be a part of it and we'll be screenings our favorite shorts from the
last 7 years! You can see the full schedule and get tix here!!
And finally, check out the Backseat Conceptions/941 Theater mailing list to see what is coming up at 941 in the next few months, this is only a fraction of what we have in store!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
March 20-21 - Infinien with Flauf, Biodiesel and Psylab with Glass Grenade
Thanks to all of those who attended the 7th annual Backseat Film Festival! And for those who didn't...too bad you missed it! But you do have another chance! The Philadelphia Film Festival/Cinefest is showcasing the Best of the Backseat Film Festival as a special 2 hour screening block! It all goes down on Sat April 4th at 9:30pm at the International House - 3701 Chestnut St in Philly! We're honored to be a part of it and we'll be screenings our favorite shorts from the last 7 years! You can see the full schedule and get tix here!!
Here is what's going down this weekend at 941 Theater:
Friday, March 20th - Flauf Productions Presents:
Infinien, Bear Is Driving, Imbala, Complex Complex
iNFiNiEN - (Philly Psychedelic / Fusion / Experimental music) Philadelphia-born iNFiNiEN combines eclectic musical personalities into a visionary, unified force. With rock, jazz, soul, world, and classical influences, the quartet plays intricately composed songs with a focus on improvisation. After playing together for three years, iNFiNiEN has discovered its own voice both live and in the studio. Their diverse influences are portrayed, but the sound produced is unique. iNFiNiEN has been compared to Bjork, Radiohead, Mahavishnu Orchestra, and John Zorn’s Masada.
Bear Is Driving (Philly Progressive / Post punk / Experimental music) - Bear is Driving is just as much a theory as it is a tangible arrangement of artists, instruments, and the resultant sounds of artist-on-instrument interaction. In the abstract, BiD is an existential approach towards the definition of Art. The music is the language with which we convey our current working definition.
Complex Complex from Milwaukee
Doors 7pm - Show 8pm
$10
All Ages - 21+ to drink
FREE BEER with Admission!
Join the FLAUF ON MYSPACE!
Sat, March 21st - Biodiesel & Psylab with KJ Sawka, I.C.K.Y.
Presented by Glass Grenade
Doors at 8pm, music from 9pm-2am $18
More Info on Facebook
www.glassgrenade.com
And here is a taste of our upcoming calendar:
Fri, March 27, 9:00pm – All Ages Philly Ska Presents: Hub City Stompers and King Django + more
Sat, March 28, 8:00pm - Found Film Festival with Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher
Fri, April 3, 9:00pm - 21+ SUBDIVISION w/ Rad Summer, Mishka NY and Palms Out Sounds
Fri, April 10, 9:00pm – The Juice w/ DJ Destruct aka Carney
Sat, April 11, 8:00pm - Consider the Source, Electric Avant Garde West Philly Orchestra
Fri, April 24, 9:00pm – Among Criminals w/ Tsunami Rising
Sat, May 2, 9:00pm - Black Landlord w/ Captain Smokes and The Shotguns
Sat, May 9, 8:30pm - 21 + - FREE Pabst Blue Ribbon! FEAR - Village Green
Sun, May 10, 3pm - All Ages Matinee FEAR and special guests TBA - Village Green
Sat, June 6, 7pm & 9:30pm Black Devil Doll - Philly Theatrical Premiere
MORE SHOWS AND SCREENINGS TBA STAY TUNED TO THE WEBSITE FOR UP-TO-DATE INFO WWW.941THEATER.COM
Doug Sakmann moderates Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy at the 2009 Backseat Film Festival
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy at the Backseat Film Fest tonight!
That’s right, Director Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy will be on hand to present our tribute to Adam Rifkin! And then we’re doing Strip for Pain for the afterparty, with Ron Jeremy co-hosting! And also, there is free booze at all the screenings! The Backseat Film Festival is ready for day 8!
We have screenings at 4pm with short films from all over the world and then we have the Rifkin double feature with his new movie National Lampoon’s “The Stoned Age” at 7pm and his cult classic “The Dark Backward” at 9pm!
National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age” stars Adam Rifkin and Ron Jeremy as well as Heroes’ Ali Larter, David Carradine, Carol Alt, Tom Arnold and more! “The Dark Backward” is also a Philly premiere after 17 years and stars Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton and Lara Flynn Boyle!
Everything goes down TODAY, Sat, March 14th at the 941 Theater. 941 N. Front St, Philadelphia PA 19123 – www.941theater.com
Strip for Pain will be performed live at the afterparty at Midnight at the M Room (15 W Girard Ave, Philly PA)!
All the info, tickets and more at : www.backseatfilmfestival.com
www.stripforpain.com
About the movies:
Backseat Film Fest – Day 8 - SATURDAY, MARCH 14th – 3 SCREENING BLOCKS
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 3 – A selection of the finest rock n’ roll shorts and music videos!
(Not in screening order)
Cottonmouth - 7 min - Christopher P. Garetano
Even - 6 min - Ben Jurin
Dead Sucks - 9 min - Elias
Heading Home - 11 min - Jane Rose
A Clown Carol - The Marley Murder Mystery - 9 min - Brian A. Bernhard
Puppet Rodeo - 4 min - Kevin Maher
Nuclear Winter - 14 min - Jeremy Carr
Dec. 2666 - 12 min - Derek Roden, James Hollenbaugh
The Collinwood Campaign - 15 min - Ryan Mains
Eve - 2 min - David N. Pilling
Nomansland - 15 min - Scott Belyea
Bunny Suits - 25 min - Colinns Schude
Bust-Out – 3 min - The Superkiiids
Woman to Woman – 2 min - The Superkiiids
Flanagan Smith "Otto Wood the Bandit" – 6 min - Michael Patrick F. Smith
7pm & 9:30pm – Backseat Film Fest’s Tribute to Adam Rifkin – Tribute to a filmmaker who has had a particularly diverse career, from Hollywood successes like ‘Detroit Rock City’, ‘Small Soldiers’, & ‘Mousehunt’ to more underground fare like the cult classics ‘The Dark Backward’ and ‘Night at the Golden Eagle’. We present his latest film, ‘Homo Erectus’ as well as our favorite Rifkin classic, the Dark Backward! - Director/Star Adam Rifkin in Attendance for Q & A!
7pm - HOMO ERECTUS - (AKA National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age) – 95 min. - A comedy set in prehistoric times following the exploits of the hapless Ishbo (Rifkin), a philosophical caveman who yearns for more out of life than sticks, stones, and raw meat. Determined to single-handedly advance the human race, Ishbo continually irritates his fellow Neanderthals with ridiculous inventions like the toothbrush, the spoon, and pants. The rest of his tribe, including his exasperated parents (KUNG-FU’s David Carradine and Talia Shire), write off his absurd gizmos and forward thinking ideas as the ravings of an idiot, something that doesn’t help his efforts to impress the beautiful Fardart (Ali Larter - HEROES), the cave girl he loves from afar. Fardart only has eyes for Ishbo’s studly but dimwitted brother, Thudnik (Hayes MacArthur). As if things couldn’t get any worse, the enemy tribe on the other side of the hill is readying for war. Will Ishbo ever win Fardart’s love? Can he possibly survive a man-eating wooly mammoth or a man-hating tribe of beautiful but deadly Amazons? Can he finally pull his species out of the primordial doldrums before he’s history? Featuring hilarious appearances by Gary Busey, Tom Arnold, Ron Jeremy, Carol Alt and more!
9:30pm - THE DARK BACKWARD (1991) PHILLY THEATRICAL PREMIERE AFTER 17 YEARS! – 101 min. - Adam Rifkin’s cult classic follows Marty Malt, (Judd Nelson) a nerd who pursues a stand-up comedy career encouraged by his fellow garbage man, Gus (Bill Paxton). Though Gus (who accompanies him on accordion) continues to tell him how great he is, Marty actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, Gus uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent (Wayne Newton), and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend (Lara Flynn Boyle) is freaked out by his new appendage!
Midnight – Afterparty at M Room featuring Strip for Pain: America’s Most Dangerous Gameshow!
Sponsored by www.hotmovies.com!
And dont forget, Sunday is our last day of screenings and the closing ceremonies for the Backseat Film Festival!!
SUNDAY, MARCH 15th – 3 SCREENING BLOCKS
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 4 – A selection of the finest rock n’ roll shorts and music videos!
(Not in screening order)
• Going Public - 22min
• Joey and Jerome's Artistic Meaningful Independent Film - 23 min - Josh Bass
• Ipso Facto - 9 min - Anna-Maria Vag
• Paid Advertisement: Power Mini Ultra-Flex Turbo - 10 min - Better Hollywood
• W.H.M - 14 min - Karl “New Cinema” Starkweather
• In The Dark - 19 min - Enrique Garcia
• I Love Sarah Jane - 14 min - Spencer Stussy
• I Love (St.) Louis – 7 min - Joe Lachajczyk
• Freak Dance: Dancin in da Streetz – 5 min - Upright Citizens Brigade
• High on Life – 4 min - Upright Citizens Brigade
• Verizon Gang – 1 min - Upright Citizens Brigade
7pm – Strange Girls – 98 min. - Dir. Rona Mark - Twin sisters, unable and unwilling to talk to anyone but each other, live a nearly comatose life in a psychiatric institute. After the murder of their psychiatrist, they are released onto the streets of Pittsburgh. Extreme strangeness ensues.
Plays with:
• Eel Girl - 6 min - Paul Campion
9:30pm – Run, Bitch! Run! – 85 min. - Dir. Joseph Guzman - Catherine and Rebecca are two Catholic School girls going door-to-door selling Religious paraphernalia in order to pay for their books and education. Things go horribly wrong when they knock on the wrong door in the wrong neighborhood. Run! Bitch Run! is a throw back to the classic 1970's Rape and Revenge films like 'Last House On the Left' and 'Ms. 45.
Closing Film
Plays with:
• Red Princess Blues - 8 min - Alex Ferrari
Midnight – Closing Ceremonies
It's all at the 941 Theater!
www.backseatfilmfestival.com
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Backseat Film Fest 09 in Full Swing! Runs thru March 15th!
We're in full swing with the finest selections of indie cinema! We had a great opening weekend at the 941 Theater with excited crowds and awesome screenings! Check out the rest of the schedule below, and remember, free booze at every screening! The official beer of the Backseat Film Festival - PABST BLUE RIBBON - will be flowing like water!
Special thanks to all the filmmakers who came out to the screenings, including Tim Cronin, Tommy Pistol, Adam Alhbrandt, the Secret Pants guys, Joe Frantz & Bam Margera! 
Tickets are on sale now at B-Side!
It's 21 + to drink and 18 + or with parent to enter!
Get all the feature film details by checking out the official press release!
Tuesday, March 10th - Day 5 - FREE!
Fancy Pants Cinema -@ N3rd (3rd and Brown) Submissions open at 9pm, screenings start at 10pm - Come bring your own movies to screen, we'll show anything that is 15 min or under!
Wed, March 11th – A DAY OF REST (OR IS IT?)
Thursday, March 12th - Day 6
8pm - THE ROAST OF THE LEGENDARY WID @ 941 Theater! Philly’s favorite prop comedian is getting a very fitting tribute! Featuring local comedians including TuRae, Brendan Kennedy, Chip Chantry, Benny Michaels, Scott Johnston, Nick Esposito with MC Richie Redding! More surprises to be
announced. $6
Friday, March 13th - Day 7
7pm - Rockabilly Baby – Dir. Ken Farmer
9:30pm – Resurrection County – Dir. Matt Zetell
Midnight – Sex Galaxy – Dir. Mike Davis
Saturday March 14th - Day 8
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 2
7pm & 9:30pm – Backseat Film Fest’s Tribute to Adam Rifkin
7pm - HOMO ERECTUS - (AKA National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age)
9:30pm - THE DARK BACKWARD
Director Adam Rifkin attendance to present the films and do a Q and A!
12am - Afterparty at M Room w/ Strip for Pain
Sunday, March 15th - Day 9
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 4
7pm – Strange Girls – Dir. Rona Mark
9:30pm – Run, Bitch! Run! – Dir. Joseph Guzman
Midnight – Closing Ceremonies
You can get all the details at www.backseatfilmfestival.com!
The 2009 Backseat Film Festival is made possible by our generous sponsors, including Pabst Blue Ribbon, Bside.com, Philadelphia Weekly, Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filters, M3 Printing and the Greater Philadelphia
Film Office.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
March 6-15th - Backseat Film Festival 2009 - 9 Days of Movie Madness!
Come join us for the finest selections of indie cinema this Friday at the Grand Opening of the 941 Theater as a regularly programmed movie theater! The Backseat Film Festival contains 14 Feature Films, all Philly Premieres, as well as over 50 shorts and music videos! Check out our feature schedule below! And remember, free booze at every screening! The official beer of the Backseat Film Festival - PABST BLUE RIBBON - will be flowing like water!
Tickets are on sale now at B-Side!
It's 21 + to drink and 18 + or with parent to enter!
Get all the feature film details by checking out the official press release!
Friday, March 6th - OPENING NIGHT
7pm - Altamont Now! – Directed by Joshua Von Brown
9:30pm – Blood on the Highway – Dir. Barak Epstein
Midnight – Hot Rod Girls Save The World – Dir. D.A. Sebastian
Saturday March 7th - Day 2
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 1
7pm – Idiots and Angels – Dir. Bill Plympton
9:30pm – WORLD PREMIERE - The Burnt House – Dir. Adam Ahlbrandt - Director, cast and crew in attendance to present the film!
Sunday, March 8th - Day 3
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 2
7pm – Vampiro: Angel, Devil, Hero – Dir. Lee Demarbe
9:30pm – Minghags – Dir. Bam Margera- Bam and the Margeras will present the film along with the CKY Crew
Afterparty TBA
Monday, March 9th - Day 4
7pm - MOVIE MONDAY @ The Trocadero
DETROIT ROCK CITY - As part of the Backseat Film Fest's tribute to Director Adam Rifkin
Tuesday, March 10th - Day 5
Fancy Pants Cinema -@ N3rd (3rd and Brown) Submissions open at 9pm, screenings start at 10pm
Wed, March 11th – A DAY OF REST (OR IS IT?)
Thursday, March 12th - Day 6
8pm - THE ROAST OF THE LEGENDARY WID @ 941 Theater! Philly’s favorite prop comedian is getting a very fitting tribute! Featuring local comedians including TuRae, Brendan Kennedy, Chip Chantry, Benny Michaels, Scott Johnston, Nick Esposito with MC Richie Redding! More surprises to be announced.
Friday, March 13th - Day 7
7pm - Rockabilly Baby – Dir. Ken Farmer
9:30pm – Resurrection County – Dir. Matt Zetell
Midnight – Sex Galaxy – Dir. Mike Davis
Saturday March 14th - Day 8
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 2
7pm & 9:30pm – Backseat Film Fest’s Tribute to Adam Rifkin
7pm - HOMO ERECTUS - (AKA National Lampoon’s the Stoned Age)
9:30pm - THE DARK BACKWARD
Director Adam Rifkin attendance to present the films and do a Q and A!
12am - Afterparty at M Room w/ Strip for Pain
Sunday, March 15th - Day 9
4pm – Backseat Shorts Block # 4
7pm – Strange Girls – Dir. Rona Mark
9:30pm – Run, Bitch! Run! – Dir. Joseph Guzman
Midnight – Closing Ceremonies
You can get all the details at www.backseatfilmfestival.com!
The programming is online! - Bear with us as B-Side updates with full schedule, trailers, press stills and more! Not all the selections are up yet, but we're getting there!
The 2009 Backseat Film Festival is made possible by our generous sponsors, including Pabst Blue Ribbon, Bside.com, Philadelphia Weekly, Gray Kangaroo Personal Liquor Filters, M3 Printing and the Greater Philadelphia
Film Office.
