WILLIAM GIBSON: NO MAPS FOR THESE TERRITORIES
(88 min., 2000): Thursday, March 22, 2001 @ 7:30 PM

LA PREMIERE
This conversation with Neuromancer & "Burning Chrome" author William Gibson - who coined the term "cyberspace" -- is the perfect summation of Western technology and culture in the 20th century, as well as a time capsule marking our society's so-called progress at the edge of a new millennium. "My job gets harder and harder every year, as the truth gets stranger than fiction," Gibson quips after citing the example of Michael Jackson marrying Elvis Presley's daughter. From the backseat of a media-rigged limousine speeding back and forth across the United States (final destination: the author's home in Vancouver), Gibson candidly and humorously discusses: the loss of the non-mediated world, the TV test patterns of his childhood, Civil War pornography, Vietnam War draft evasion, the influence of William S. Burroughs, the end of his romance with drugs, the writing process, his role as a visionary of the future, and his own growth as a person and writer. A veteran of visual conceptualization and mixed media artistry, director Mark Neale (U2 Zoo TV Tour; Memory Palace for EXPO 92) illustrates Gibson's commentary with mind-stimulating imagery, like the strange, shifting landscape outside the car windows: a landscape which grows to resemble Gibson's fiction more with each passing year. "…the end result is a stiff cocktail of artifice and prophetic social commentary." (Bill Powers, Black Book) Featuring interviews with writers Jack Womack and Bruce Sterling; music by tomandandy and readings and music by Bono and The Edge. (www.nomaps.com) Director/Producer Mark Neale will appear for discussion after the screening. Santa Monica based director Mark Neale is available for interview.

Ticket prices are $8 general admission. This information and more is also on our website: www.egyptiantheatre.com.
The Alternative Screen: A Forum For Independent Film Exhibition And Beyond…, the American Cinematheque's on-going series focusing on independent and new forms of cinema was created to serve the public as well as the independent film community in Los Angeles by providing a year-round venue for independent feature films that have not yet secured wide commercial distribution. 

Whatever the ALTERNATIVE SCREEN offers from month to month, it promises to be provocative, innovative and fiercely independent. Select Alternative Screen alumni include THE BIBLE & GUN CLUB, HABIT, STAR MAPS and THE LAST BIG THING. The Alternative Screen takes on-going submissions for consideration of fiercely independent work in all genres. Please send a 1/2" tape to: Margot Gerber, The Alternative Screen, c/o American Cinematheque, 1800 N. Highland Avenue, Suite 717, Hollywood, CA., 90028. Include a SASE if you would like your tape returned. Inquiries should be directed to 323.461.2020, ext. 115. Short films should be sent to the attention of Andrew Crane.

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