NEW WORKS AND NYC PREMIERES BY PETER CRAMER AND JACK WATERS, WITH MARC ARTHUR

Jack Waters is a filmmaker, writer, media artist, choreographer, and performer. Peter Cramer is an archivist, filmmaker, performer, and curator. Their 20-year collaboration is currently represented in the development of a multi-media opus-in-progress titled PESTILENCE, a concept initiated in residence at the Emily Harvey Foundation in Venice, Italy. They are the co-founders of LE PETIT VERSAILLES, an Operation Green Thumb garden on the Lower East Side that presents screenings, music, performance, visual art exhibitions, and new media; and the custodians of ABC NO RIO’s extensive archives, under Allied Productions, Inc., the artist-run organization they co-founded.

LIVE WIRE/REMOTE
2009, 12 minutes, video. World premiere!
Following 9/11, numerous articles in the mainstream press heralded the return of “pedophilic” practices among the Afghani military elite. This film, a document of a multi-media enquiry at Remote Lounge, a video club on the Bowery equipped with video terminals, challenges notions of journalistic objectivity and authenticity, questioning the differences between these alleged “perversions” and the ancient Greek practice of pederasty.

THE EDUCATION OF ABOU BEN ADHEM
2009, 16.5 minutes, video. Made in collaboration with Marc Arthur. World premiere!
Showing ways in which cultures clash by positioning the impressionistic figure of an imaginary Islamic nationalist torn between his love of erotic poetry and the need to defend his heritage against the very Western influences that are his material resources for said defense.

OCCUPY MY ASS, NOT IRAQ
2006, 7 minutes, video. Directed by Jack Waters with Peter Cramer; videography by Peter Cramer; with Dom Pirates and Ares Fortuna; narrated by Veronica Powers. U.S. Premiere!
Gazing at militarism and aggressive impulse through the blurred lens of gender association. An immigrant is lured into an induction as the recruiter’s subconscious back-story is revealed in voiceover.

UNDETECTABLE IN BERLIN
2009, 28 minutes, video. U.S. Premiere!
Culled from the actions of an artists’ residency in Berlin. A sub-theme for the Berlin occupation was “Undetectable”: an infection whose presence is assumed, but whose physical detection is untraceable by scientific means.
Total running time: ca. 70 minutes.