Long Island City, NY (July 26, 2000) – Dive-in Movies: Flix from the Great B-yond is a return of the Living Drive-in. Held outdoors at the urban beach, Dive-in Movies is a technicolored summer of star-gazing, subversive silver-screen myths, and 3-D creatures that only come out at night. Dive in Movies is curated by Ocularis with lighting design provided by Galapagos Art and Performance Space.

Two Nights! Double Features!
August 17^TH: THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON IN 3-D!!!

August 24^th: COBRA WOMAN
Each B-feature is preceded by a program of Short films by experimental and underground directors: works that spin out from the B-side: vulgar and sublime reworkings of cultural detritus and cinema cliches. Sprinkled with rare celluloid novelties. Risqué Scopitones, lurid trailers, and digest features.

Dive in to P.S.1 for cinema, snow cones, a cool drink, and poolside surprises in a unique open-air environment. Dunescape, an urban beach by architecture group SHoP, is comprised of pools, misters and a boardwalk, inviting visitors to lounge, socialize, sunbathe, wade in pools, or walk through a spray of water mist to cool off. Bring your beach blanket for reclined movie viewing!

Thursday, August 17^th, 9pm- midnight:

MARVELOUS CREATURES (PG-13)

MOTHER NATURE; Cathy Cook; 1996; experimental; 16mm; 5 min
The mysteries of Mother Nature unveiled.

SPACE WAR; Christy Karacas; 1997; animation; 16mm; 3 min
Cartoon cosmic chaos (animated astral apocalypse)

The Evil of Dracula; Martha Colburn; 1998; underground; 16mm; 3 min
Paint-dripped blood-lusting, in-your-face creatures in a mondo bizarro musical collage.

BUST UP; CATHY COOK; 1989; experimental; 16mm; 7 min
"Tea time will never be the same. . . featuring female impersonator, Holly Brown, in the tickling thriller about an afternoon tea that’s an introduction to an out-of-town visitor." - C.C.

THE MUMMY (DIGEST VERSION) 1932; 16mm; condensed feature; 10 min
A Castle Films short subject rendering of Karl Freund’s horror classic, starring Boris Karloff. When an ancient Egyptian tomb is violated, the mummy guarding it returns to life to find his reincarnated princess.

Outer Space; Peter Tscherkassky; 1999; 16mm; experimental; 10 min
"Cinema tearing itself apart, driven by the expectation of a final ecstasy. . . Outer Space is a shocker of cinematographic dysfunction; a hell-raiser of avant-garde cinema. It conjures up an inferno which pursues the destruction (of cinematic narrative and illusion) with unimaginable beauty." --Stefan Grissemann

INTERMISSION (and a word from our sponsor): Classic drive-in promotional films

HORROR FILM TRAILERS: 16mm; 20 min
Bs from the 1950s and 60s featuring Robert Vaughn and Steve Reeves before they were famous. Including Godzilla Vs. The Thing, I was a Teenage Caveman, War of the Colossal Giants, Attack of the Puppet People, Bucket of Blood, Angry Red Planet, How to Make a Monster, and others.

FEATURE: The Creature from the Black Lagoon
Jack Arnold, 1954, 79 mins IN 3-D!!!! glasses provided
A quintessential creature feature with fabulous underwater photography. Members of an anthropological expedition in the Amazon discover the gill-man, a prehistoric humanoid fish monster. Smitten by the fetching female scientist, a webby beast wreaks havoc on our intrepid crew. All in the interest of good science…

Thursday, August, 24^th, 9pm- midnight

POOL OF LUST ( R )
"Juvenile does not equal shameful and trash is the material of creators. It exists whether one approves or not. You may not approve of the Orient but it’s half the world and it’s where spaghetti came from. Trash is true of Maria Montez flix but so are jewels, Cobra jewels and so is wondrous refinement"
—Jack Smith, The Perfect Film Appositeness of Maria Montez

SINCERELY, JOE P. BEAR; Matt McCormick; 1999; experimental; 16mm; 4 min
Polar bears, ice queens, lost love, and rejection. Appropriated news clips from the 1960's combine with hand painted film to tackle the momentous issue of how polar bears cope with heartbreak and rejection.

REMOVED; Naomi Uman; 1998; 16mm; experimental; 6 min
Equipped with nail polish remover, Uman performs an emotional rescue of female desire from the unlikely space of 70s moving-image pornography.

SCOPITONE FILMS: WEB OF LOVE & THE NIGHT HAS A THOUSAND EYES; circa 1960s 6min
Those sexy 60s jukebox flix of zany, raunchy, and racy Franco-American pop songs

The Morphology of Desire; Robert Arnold; 1999; animation; 16mm; 6mins
"Romance novel covers morph in an endlessly looping chain of desire."- NYUFF 2000 catalogue

BREATHE; Jay Capela, 1994; 16mm; experimental; 10 min
Found-footage romantic comedy about love, sex, power, and one couple’s struggle to comprehend the chain of events leading to the End of Romance.

MOSHOLU HOLIDAY; George Kuchar; 1966; 16mm; underground; 9 min
"A documentary-like movie about the Bronx and its hell spawn filmed in hot weather and on location. Edited during the hot weather . . .. An appearance by ‘Mrs. Bronx’ herself, Frances Leibowitz, and her girlfriend Iris, make this film a must-see for travel enthusiasts and horror fans." —G.K.

ANOTHER KIND OF GREEN; Thad Povey, 1989; 16mm; experimental; 6min
Let’s play house… The rhythm beckons, follow the sound of the drum

THERE’S A PERVERT IN OUR POOL; Martha Colburn; 1998; underground; 16mm; 4min
A cut-out, pop-up, over-board, under-ground animated "psycho-spazz-u-mentary"

JUST FOR YOU GIRLS; MM Serra; 1997; 1 min
A Johnson’s Baby Powder ad.

FEATURE: Cobra Woman, Robert Siodmak, 1944 – USA – 70 mins
Maria Montez stars as a jungle princess who commands the island through her serpent-worshipping cult. A technicolor adventure fantasy with every luxury: a menacing volcano, an evil twin, a friendly chimp, a dashing savior, resplendent cobra dances; and lush Tahitian topography.

The series is curated by Karyn Riegel, Special Events Director, Ocularis with Bradley Eros, filmmaker and curator for Anthology Film Archive, Exit Art, The Whitney Museum, the Robert Beck Memorial Cinema and beyond & Astria Suparak, curator of the Film/Video Series at Pratt Institute (1997-2000) and independent curator who has programmed for the N.Y. Underground Film Festival, the Knitting Factory, Anthology Film Archives, WFMU/Smack Mellon, amongst others. Currently she is working on a videotape compilation for the movie distribution network Big Miss Moviola (available through K Records this fall) and programming for the MIX Film Festival 2000. Produced by Donal O’Ceilleachair, Director, Ocularis.

The evening’s music arranged by Lucien Sanaha.

Ocularis is a non-profit organization run by filmmakers and curators dedicated to bringing repertory cinema and innovative experimental, documentary, and independent programs to New York’s alternative film audiences. Ocularis was originally conceived of as a center for independent filmmakers to meet and interact, to screen their work, and see and to discuss the work of other filmmakers. Every Sunday and Monday night in its primary venue located in Galapagos, (an old mayonnaise factory converted into an Art & Performance Space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn), Ocularis presents 16mm retro features preceded by short films, and curates events such as silent films accompanied by live, original scores, and short film programs traversing a wide range of genres. The New York Times called Ocularis "one of the more evocative new screening venues". Ocularis comes from the Late Latin and directly translated means 'of eyes', and originally comes from the Latin 'Oculus' which means eye. For information on Ocularis: ocularis@billburg.com, or visit us at http://www.ocularis.net