Dear Everybody,

We’re very excited to announce three upcoming screenings, especially:

BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE
WORLD PREMIERE
at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
Thursday, April 16, 2009. 8PM $6

But especially:

JME IN MYSPACE: TROPICAL FEELINGS
In “Beneath a Passive Surface: An Evening of Video and Perfomance”
at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
Thursday, April 17, 2009. 8PM $6

And especially:

O, NURSE!
The Hinterland Film Festival
at The Book Mill, Montague, MA
April 25th (SOLD OUT) and Saturday, May 2nd 2009. 8PM $3.40

Here are the details. We’ll be totally present in San Francisco. Forward widely!

Yrs,
Lev + Whitney
Ball Deep International
(Blondes in New York: we’re figuring it out - maybe May??)

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*BLONDES IN THE JUNGLE*
WORLD PREMIERE
at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
Thursday, April 16, 2009. 8PM $6

Blondes in the Jungle is the new art-film/comedy by Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn (Ball Deep International). On a hunt for the Fountain of Youth, three teenagers in 1980’s Honduras buy drugs, harm nature and have magical encounters. Tons of landscape footage, a meditation on Mayan Archaeology and a heavy TV teen vibe highlight this impulse-buy spiritual adventure.

Original soundtrack by 1987 World Beat band El Jefe and The Executive Look, featuring contributions by members of Aa, Asobi Seksu, Birthday Boyz, Vampire Weekend and Julianna Barwick.

Starring Chino Ward, Coogan Martin, Travis Nutting, Trevor Hoff, Andre Frechette III and Ingrid Schram. 2009, 16mm, color, 50 min.

http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=3699
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1377124/
http://www.blondesinthejungle.com

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*BENEATH A PASSIVE SURFACE*
An Evening of Video and Perfomance
at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
Thursday, April 16, 2009. 8PM $6

This program explores the diverse realm of video and the various ways artists employ it as a process of communication, point of reflection, backdrop for action, and vehicle of abstraction. In “J.M.E. in MySpace: Tropical Feelings”, a Comic video essay about grime music and MySpace, Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn show that “beneath the passive surface of the internet, creative energy flows”. David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas try to extend one of Paul McCarthy’s installations to include the outside world. In A.K. Burns “Electric in the Cosmic Age”, she wrestles fellow Bay Area ex-pat, K8 Hardy in orange spandex with sound by Matt Volla. “In the absence of daylight, we are haunted by ghosts and moths, which pass through walls and create holes in beloved fabrics.” Deville Cohen’s “The Wall” “explores the possibilities of Paper as a sculptural material, as well as its function as a carrier of a printed image.” Joshua Kit Clayton brings awkwardness and insight together through group exercise. And More!!! Artists in the program include:

A.K. Burns, Catherine Czacki, Joshua Kit Clayton, Deville Cohen, Maggie Foster, David Horvitz and Lukas Geronimas, Lev Kalman and Whitney Horn, Daniel Minnick, Kamau Patton, Marcia Scott, Margaret Tedesco

http://www.atasite.org/calendar/?x=3698
http://www.balldeep.tv/projects.php?recordID=pv01

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*O, NURSE!*
The Hinterland Film Festival
at The Book Mill, Montague, MA
April 25th (SOLD OUT) and Saturday, May 1nd 2009. 8PM $3.40

A dreamy Bastille Day and night on an apple orchard in Maine. Starring Darin Guerrasio, Lev Kalman, Travis Nutting, Julia Goldman, Andre Frechette III and Abby Burns.

2004, 16mm, color, 16mm, 5m40s.
http://www.hinterlandfilmfestival.com/
http://www.balldeep.tv/projects.php?recordID=onurse

Heyyyyy - We hope you enjoy the new look of BALL DEEP INTERNATIONAL. Our hope is to make navigating videos easier and to make it clearer what of our work is and isn’t available online.
Anyways, please let us know if anything looks weird, or videos don’t play, or whatever. This is something of a trial run for the Blondes in the Jungle website we’ll soon be launching.

L + W

As in the last year our technical chops have extended extensively, we felt its time to update the business site.

What’s up now is just a placeholder, starring Whitney and Oliver’s dog Joy Division. But as a placeholder…pretty ok huh?

L

Whit and I made a list (soon to be reflected on the official site) of projects we’re researching/developing. It’s in sorta chronological order, starting w stuff that’ll be happening soon and finishing with stuff that we might not be ready to do for 30 years or so:

Lev Leviev Radio Show
Blondes in the Jungle
Peripheral Visions
Lazyhan.dz
Untitled Peru Surf Project
Untitled Christian Bale Fanfic
Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Video Game
Untitled adaptation of C. Shoop’s California dissertation
L for Leisure
Professional Visions
21 Yump Street
Miami Weiss
Ethereal Visions
2 Plains and a Fancy
Ephemeral Visions

Electra - The Future; Happy Mondays - W.F.L. (Think About the Future); Heaven 17 - We’re Going to Live For a Very Long Time.

L

Followup: Add to HAPPENING SOON: Untitled Aa Beach Instamovie!

Swing Kids could be better only in insignificant ways. In all the big ways it is awesome.

Christian Bale fanfic coming soon.

Thanks for

I. Giving us the weirdest, gender-bending/candy themed hit since whatever.

II. This song where you’re like:

“They said I couldn’t play football I was too small /
they said I couldn’t play basketball I wasn’t tall /
they said I couldn’t play baseball at all /
and now every day of my life I ball.“

Sorry we’re like the top hit for “lil wayne gay”.

L + W

When I was in seventh grade, I was presented with a certificate for science. When they gave it to me, I ate it in front of the whole class. I did that first because I was just a weirder person than I can even now imagine; second cuz I didn’t, y’know, study antimatter to please my teachers; and third cuz I figured I was super-entitled to certificates and would be getting them all the time forever.

Well that proved to be true. I just won a CINE Golden Eagle award for Squamates on the Move: Lizard and Snake Locomotion, a video I made for the Museum of Natural History. It comes with a certificate and everything.

Plus, you know who else won a Golden Eagle? ROBERT EFFING ALTMAN.

So, yes - Thanks to the producer Lee, the boss Mindy and all the herpetologists who confirmed the known-unknown that herpetologists are crazy and they throw poisonous snakes at people as a goof.

Sincerely,
KGE

The new website’s up! Hopefully you find it much improved…

Thing is, we haven’t been able to test it on the infinite possible alternative browsers and operating systems. So there’s probably some design flaws. If anything looks funny to you, or you can suggest any improvements, Please let us know! Leave a comment or email us.

Thanks!
L + W

Sorry, BALLDEEP.TV is getting majorly overhauled today.
Please enjoy this clip from Eric Rohmer’s PERCEVAL instead.