The Squeaky Wheel will present Not Of This Earth featuring the following films curated by Herb Shellenberger at the Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center.

Consisting of both contemporary works investigating new technologies and underground films from the era of head-trip psychedelia, this program of artist moving image works depicts alternate realities, cosmic landscapes and humanoid beings. Featuring several films on rarely-screened 16mm prints, and guest curated by formerly London, now Pennsylvania based scholar and curator Herb Shellenberger,

• Moon 1969 (Scott Bartlett, 1969, 16mm, 15 min.): "'Moon 1969 is a beautiful, eerie, haunting film, all the more wonderful for the fact we do not once see the moon: only the manifestation of its powers here on earth, the ebb and flow of the waters.. fiery rainbows into a cloudy sky… men and rockets transformed into shattering crystals… creating a picture if the cosmos in continual transformation.'— Gene Youngblood, Los Angeles Times"
• Amnesie 25 (Willy Braque, 1967, digital, 8 min.)
• Some Shapes Without Edges (Molly Palmer, 2016, digital, 10 min.): "Some Shapes Without Edges is an episodic video sequence about the mystery, complexity and absurdity of being human. How do we absorb and transform experiences that are funny, bewildering and beautiful — confusing, frightening or sad?"
• The Liberation of The Mannique Mechanique (Steven Arnold, 1967, 16mm, 15 min.): "'This film has a sensitive balance of all its parts and it is realized with masterly control. Each gesture, movement, position, as well as all of the costuming, make-up and props work in a harmony for this under-dream-world of Eastern magicians. Even the bodies of the actors look as though they were designed for the film. There is odalisque fragrance of incense and kief… and behind that, almost imperceptible, the smell of rotting flesh. Arnold has made a beautiful and powerful film poem that is saturated with style.' — Robert Nelson"
• Sump (Nicholas Brooks, Benedict Drew,, 2016, digital, 20 min.): "Sump somp, soupe….Swelp. De-Dif-Dis-Di-Dro- Some ******* ate other ******* and got indigestion. That is the origin of complex _______. We suddenly saw a world which was populated by groaning things and bothersome articulations and amusing lifeforms with the simple purpose of flashing on and off and MacHine-animal manifestations that turned into other MacHines like they were yawning and an ecosystem of functions and dispositions and always no choice but to be what they were and we suddenly understood like never before."

[source: Squeaky Wheel website, 2016-Nov-28]