STRAIGHT JACKET GUERRILLA FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS: A CELEBRATION OF PUNK CINEMA
JOIN US FOR THE 3RD ANNUAL STRAIGHT JACKET AFFAIR
MARK YOUR CALENDARS: SATURDAY, AUGUST 31ST, 7PM
The 2019 Straight Jacket Guerrilla Film Festival proudly invites you to our prestigious awards screening during this year's 3rd Annual Straight Jacket Affair. This extraordinary event will transform TEXPOP—the South Texas Museum of Pop Culture—into a vibrant epicenter of revolutionary filmmaking. This underground art gallery brilliantly unites artists and visitors in celebration of pop culture's status quo and its thriving DIY community.
On this electrifying night, we'll showcase a film specifically chosen for our discerning pop audience—a work that boldly distinguishes itself among our entire 2019 online selection. Experience our Guerrilla Film Showcase, curated for your viewing pleasure and critical appreciation.
This evening represents our unwavering devotion to our Film Volta and rebel philosophy—the beating heart of the New Punk Cinema movement. We celebrate a cinematic approach that remains vibrant, ever-evolving, and rich with continuous discovery and transformation. Our philosophy forms the foundation of what we believe drives the revolutionary innovations shaping the future of Fast Food Cinema—an underground movement dedicated to dismantling Hollywood's restrictive industry standards by unleashing experimental, guerrilla, and anti-art films upon the masses.
BREAKING FREE FROM THE ILLUSION
While unrealistic American standards and oppressive stereotypes pressure us toward conformity, the harsh reality is that these forces control our lives with fantasies of idealized living—pushing us to work harder and consume more. Meanwhile, we disconnect from life's authenticity, battling against the imperfections of anti-beauty to escape the inescapable truths of pain, aging, love, and death. As these illusions drain humanity's ego, time, money, and happiness, we struggle to genuinely connect with today's stories and their flawlessly portrayed characters in movie theaters—venues that grow increasingly deserted.
THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Today's pop audiences increasingly find themselves drawn to the limitless cinematic adventures within YouTube's vast digital landscape—a realm where films circulate freely, granting any filmmaker the opportunity to reach diverse, expansive audiences. This phenomenon captivates countless spectators who now navigate an infinite collection of movies, clips, vlogs, DIY music videos, demos, tutorials, underground films, and an abundance of amateur footage captured on camera phones, all uploaded to this pool of relatable media treasures.
CHAMPIONING THE GUERRILLA FILMMAKER
Straight Jacket provides these guerrilla filmmakers a platform for international exposure, celebrating their works as festival-worthy creations while promoting both the artist and their distinctive craft. We showcase their passion and vision for experimental cinema that fearlessly breaks established rules. These artists' DIY punk mentality has flourished by seizing control of their destiny and filmmaking journey, defining their own processes and techniques. As they blaze trails for others to follow without limitation, their boundless imagination allows them to flourish through resourceful and creative problem-solving approaches—demonstrating that compelling guerrilla films require no budget.
We honor these pioneers who began with nothing but themselves and perhaps one collaborator. Their determination to document the world authentically through their unique perspective grants them the power to express profound individuality. By challenging Hollywood's restrictive industry standards, their passion for original ideas has transformed vision into reality. To anyone with a camera phone and the passion, desire, and ambition to create cinema: don't abandon your dreams! We commend you... the world is yours!
A NIGHT OF ARTISTIC CONVERGENCE
On this special evening, Melinda Martinez unites diverse artists to present a unique art exposition featuring various styles converging to exhibit artistic talents, concepts, and creative processes.
Thomas Lahomme will inaugurate the festivities with an experimental interpretation of sound and poetry, featuring an improvisation of Theremin by Anti-Beauty's solo project.
The complete Straight Jacket Guerrilla Online Film Festival will screen its entire 2019 film selection from August 15th through August 21st at straightjacketguerrillafilmfestival.com. For additional information regarding the film festival screening schedule, visit our website at straightjacketguerrillafilmfestival.com.
THE ELECTRIC CULMINATION
Where this night will take us remains to be discovered... The electronic auditory visions evoke a future disco. Experience a lineup of synthesizer manipulators and performers in a live spectacle of killer electro clash and mind-blowing synth wizardry competing for the climax of synth blasting. Musicians engage in a synth battle featuring performances by Dae Feour, Cedric Crow, and a special guest—where synthesizers duel to create the engaging backdrop for an immersive dream experimentation presenting "DICA," the dream experiment.
This abstract form of visual poetry takes viewers on a roller coaster through colorful moving paintings where colliding rainbows converge. The psychedelic display of avant-garde performance art and modern dance fills the everlasting continuum of time and space, moment by moment, timelessly. Witness experimental film transformations between scenes and video art transitions where depictions of punk film appear through the eyes of a video artist and no-wave thinker presenting The Show.
A Video Art Film Volta you absolutely cannot miss... And to conclude this magical night of electricity, a live act that captivates the soul will end the festivities—the genius musical compositions of wicked Sega chiptune master DYA, also known as Aaron Hickman.
