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September 26th, 2-5 pm
Book & DVD signing at NOMAD, Cambridge!

September 25th, Psychedelic Cinema returns to Boston!
Balagan and guest curator Jane Gillooly present:
PSYCHEDELIC CINEMA, Light Show Films (1967-1969) with Live Music
Featuring Films by KEN BROWN (Appearing in Person)
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with musicians: Chris Butler, Bob Moses, Willie Alexander, Ken Winokur, P. Andrew Willis, DJ Pace

Coolidge Corner Theatre (Moviehouse I)
Thursday September 25th, 7:30PM
$12 general admission $10 students and members

The infamous and eye-popping vintage 1960’s Boston Tea Party Light Show Films (shot & directed by
Ken Brown) return with a dazzling live psychedelic musical arrangement performed by New York and
Boston luminaries.

It is high time for a proper Boston screening celebration of the absolutely unique image world of filmmaker,
photographer, cartoonist and designer Ken Brown. For over thirty years Brown has been making stunning
experimental films, animations and music videos. For three years in the late 60’s in Boston, Ken Brown
was the resident filmmaker for the ultra-psychedelic Cinemateque and Rock Club - the Boston Tea
Party. Between 1967 and 1969 he produced hundreds of Super-8mm works loaded with
staggering superimpositions and startling visual dimensions for this infamous Boston Light Show.

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Past events:

Psychedelic Cinema, Thursday, JUNE 12th 2008
With live music by Ken Sirulnik, Chris Butler, Bob Moses, and Jeff Rabb!
Ken's light show films from 1967-1969 projected on all 4 walls of Monkeytown!
Monkey Town
58 N 3rd St (btw. Kent & Wythe)
Williamsburg, Brooklyn 11211
718-384-1369
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Land of the Giants, Wall to Wall and Life Soup, 3 of Ken's shorts, will be screened before the double feature of: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory & The Wizard of Oz. Ken will be present to answer questions.Sunday, April 13, 2008
Galapagos Art Space
70 N. 6th St  Williamsburg
718-0782-5188
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Ken's light show films with live music
CorneliaStreet Cafe • 29 Cornelia St • New York City
January 29, 2008
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2 Ken Brown film programs at Anthology Film Archives:
Psychedelic Cinema
Ken's light show films from 1967-1969 with live music
Selected Shorts
40 year retrospective of short films
Anthology Film Archives
32 2nd Avenue New York City

                                                                
"It is high time for a survey of the absolutely unique image world of filmmaker, photographer, cartoonist and designer Ken Brown. A man who dons many hats, Brown is perhaps best known for his peculiar and distinctive postcards and other graphic products, (wrapping paper, rubber stamps, t-shirts, etc.). His first love and most abiding passion, however, is film. In the late 60’s, Brown was the filmmaker for the ultra-psychedelic Boston Tea Party light show, producing Super-8mm works loaded with staggering superimpositions and startling visual dimensions. His subsequent short films have continued to mine his deep fascination with American pop culture, the quotidian world of home movies and the idiosyncratic world of outsiders and visionary artists. Besides the copious experimental films, animations and video documentaries he has made over the years, Brown has produced and directed dozens of short commissions for MTV, VH-1, SESAME STREET, AMC and other clients. These two programs will give an overview of his prodigious output." from Anthology Film Archives program guide