January 2 - 6, 2005
Sci-Fi London
London, England
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
January 5, 2005
Festival du Cin�ma de Paris
Paris, France
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
January 11, 2005
Koncertberichten
Audio-Vizueel Koncert
Ghent, Belgium
Concert/Screening featuring multi-media work by Ronnie Cramer
January 18, 2005
Prends �a Court
Montreal Short Film Festival
Montreal, Quebec
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
February 4 - 6, 2005
Dam Short Film Festival
Boulder City, NV
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
February 17, 2005
Missoula Independent
Missoula, MT
Highway Amazon by Ronnie Cramer
12 minutes, 2004
It�s no secret that many couples enjoy casual wrestling in bed, but you might be surprised to learn that there are professional women traveling the country to wrestle men in hotel rooms. Highway Amazon introduces us to superwoman Christine Fetzer and offers a glimpse into her life. And a glimpse it is; clocking in at barely 12 minutes, the short leaves the viewer with more questions than answers. How does she get appointments? How did she get into the profession? These and other curiosities linger in the viewer�s mind, but Fetzer�s awkward monologue sprinkled between the hilarious sessions makes the documentary worth the time. 'They wanna feel small and weak,' she says about her clients. 'It turns them on to be dominated.' Match time for the Amazon is Friday, Feb. 18, at 4:45 p.m. - Eric Segalstad
February 17 - 23, 2005
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Missoula, MT
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
February 26, 2005
DropFrame
KBDI Channel 12
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film A Moment in Time
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
February 24 - 27, 2005
Golden Film Festival
Golden, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
February 26 - March 27, 2005
Englewood Cultural Arts Center
Englewood, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
March 4 - 13, 2005
Durango Film Festival
Durango, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 4 - April 1, 2005
Las Vegas Arts Council
Las Vegas, NM
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
March 12, 2005
21 Grand
416 25th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Matt Davignon's Droneshift
Music/Sound-Art performance by Ronnie Cramer
March 15 - 20, 2005
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 17, 2005
Bug Theatre
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
March 22, 2005
Film Artist Network
Beverly Hills, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 22, 2005
A3 Roots
CinemaSlam
Highlights include Pete Miser's stunning new music video 'Scent Of A Robot'; the best works from the U of M's Lightworks Festival--'Bust', 'Fulfil A Hankering', 'Kalamosaic' and 'O Marcus Pequeno'; and we've got Ronnie Cramer's 'Pillow Girl' fresh from the A2 Film Fest you so recently loved.
March 23, 2005
CinemaSlam
Michigan Theater
Ann Arbor, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 25, 2005
Jackson County Oregon
Mail Tribune
Independent visions
This year the AIFF will host 'Stop, Motion! � Photographs from the 2005 AIFF Films.' Approximately 35 still photographs from the festival films will be on display from April 1-10 at the Nuwandart Gallery, 258 A St. in Ashland. An opening reception will be held at the gallery from 5 to 8 p.m. during Artwalk on Friday, April 1. The short film Pillow Girl, an official festival selection will be screened throughout the evening.
March 30 - April 3, 2005
Lake County Film Festival
Libertyville, IL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 31 - April 4, 2005
Ashland Independent Film Festival
Ashland, OR
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 31, 2005
Ashland Daily Tidings
AIFF on with the show, this is it
The fourth Ashland Independent Film Festival will be held at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Ashland, starting today. This year the AIFF presents a new event during the festival: Stop, Motion! - Photographs from the 2005 AIFF Films. Each year the souvenir program includes a synopsis and still picture from every film. Many of these single frames are works of art in their own right and this year audiences will have the opportunity to view them as such - on the gallery wall! Approximately 35 still photographs from the festival films will be on display at the Nuwandart Gallery from April 1-10. An opening reception will be held at the gallery, 258 'A' Street in Ashland, from 5-8 pm during Artwalk on Friday, April 1. The short film Pillow Girl, an official festival selection will be screened throughout the evening.
April 2005
Ronnie Cramer
Chang & Eng
1. Chang (Part One)
2. Chang (Part Two)
3. Chang (Part Three)
4. Chang (Part Four)
5. Chang (Part Five)
6. Chang (Part Six)
7. Eng (Part One)
8. Eng (Part Two)
9. Eng (Part Three)
10. Eng (Part Four)
11. Eng (Part Five)
12. Eng (Part Six)
Recorded 3/12/05 at Matt Davignon's DroneShift Event | Oakland, California
Produced by Ronnie Cramer
April 1 - 7, 2005
Filmstock Hungary
Debrecen, Hungary
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
April 1 - 30, 2005
Stearns Homestead
Parma, OH
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
April 16, 2005
FilmHu
K�pben a (bel)vil�g
Ronnie Cramer P�rnal�ny c�mu darabja puhak�t�su k�nyvek, �s magazinok bor�t�it haszn�lja, ahol az illusztr�lt figur�k � rajzolt nok a h�szas-harmincas �vek Amerik�j�b�l � �letre kelnek, egym�sba olvadnak. T�bb, mint k�tsz�z bor�t� � h�lgy � jelenik meg a szem�nk elott nyolc percben. Az egy �tletre �p�to film akarva-akaratlan gondolat�breszto a nok v�lt �s val�s szerep�rol, bekategoriz�l�s�r�l �s az ir�nyukban kialakult sztereot�pi�kr�l. A spanyol Raul Arroyo Erre j�rok minden nap c�mu sz�nes, ritmusos, multikultur�lis filmje szint�n igazi fel�d�l�st jelent a pillanatokig m�r nyomaszt� �industrial� muv�szked�s k�z�tt. A gyors, anim�ci�s technik�kat felvonultat� alkot�s temp�s menet, a dolgok ritmus�ra, a belsonk �s a vil�g ritmus�ra, sz�ps�g, hal�l, politika, vall�s, �let, sz�nek �sszess�g�re kompon�lt kavalk�dban haladunk tov�bb. - Vichn�l N�ra
April 21 - 28, 2005
USA Film Festival
Dallas, TX
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 22 - May 1, 2005
Mediawave International Film and Music Festival
Gyor, Hungary
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 23, 2005
The 1896 Fine Art Film Gallery
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's McLuhan PSA Series
April 25 - May 7, 2005
Syracuse International Film and Video Festival
Syracuse, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 27 - May 1, 2005
Tribeca Underground Film Festival
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 29, 2005
Transindex
The Closet Secrets
Who else other than music and movies also had time to learn what role to play in the aktfot�z�sban Pepper (Hot and naked - photographer Edward Weston: Joachim Haupt and Sabine Pollmeyer).
Belek�stolhatott in what could be the Lido and the Moulin Rouge when it was still Dali, Giacometti, Miro and Juan have been reported there (Daniel Frasnay - and the exile of the kingdom).
And that sound made �js�goldalakb�l scanned book and, if �tfuttatj�k a synthesizer (P�rnal�ny - Ronnie Cramer). Translated from Hungarian
April 29 - May 1, 2005
Trenton Film Festival
Trenton, NJ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 2005
Upstage Magazine
Inside the films of the Trenton Film Festival
Pillow Girl
Experimental
Directed by Ronnie Cramer, Denver, CO
What began as a sound/art piece of work has evolved into so much more. Musician/artist Ronnie Cramer scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks � some 150 covers in all. He then ran the collected images and text data through a variety of synthesizers, creating a collection of electronic soundscapes. PILLOW GIRL makes use of the covers themselves, with one illustrated figure morphing into the next every two seconds, creating a bizarre new art form that is at once both hypnotically beautiful and strangely disorienting.
May 1 - June 26, 2005
Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts
Fredericksburg, VA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
May 2 - 15, 2005
Studio Montclair
Montclair, NJ
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 4 - 26, 2005
Gallery International
Baltimore, MD
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
May 6 - 7, 2005
Independent Festival of Digital Arts
Vista Community College
Berkeley, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film wHOLE
May 12 - 15, 2005
COURTisane New Media Festival
Gent, Belgium
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 15, 2005
I.H. Magazine
CORTOMETRAGGI - PROGRAMMA 2 (ODEON PANTON ST 9.00PM)
BLINDED, Canada, 2004, regia di Jeff Wastila, durata 5'
CLEANING UP YOUR WORLD, Germania, 2004, regia di Emre Koca, durata 12'
THE CARPENTER & HIS CLUMSY WIFE, Irlanda, 2004, regia di Peter Foott, durata 14'
IOTA, UK, 2004, regia di Simon Dennis, durata 11'
'M', Messico, 2004, regia di Everado Gout, durata 8'
PILLOW GIRL, USA, 2004, regia di Ronnie Cramer, durata 6'
May 19, 2005
Forest Film Fest
Portland, OR
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 20 - June 24, 2005
Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
May 20 - 22, 2005
Flint Film Festival
Flint, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 2005
Jackass Critics
Flint Film Festival
Pillow Girl � 9 � short film - Ronnie Cramer
An utterly ingenious short film that really blew my mind with its simple complexities. Basically morphing hundreds of covers for old pulp books (from trashy tales of lust to mysteries to old laddie mags) around the woman in each cover. It becomes a beautiful examination of the sexual violence and lust that still infects how many men view women. The one woman with a thousand faces (each cover dissolves and reforms using the woman as the focal point, so it appears that it is the same woman in ever picture) becomes both victim and accuser as we see how sex and violence have sold out women�s rights in order to make a buck. The best short I saw all weekend and one to really look for if you can. Tremendous work. - The Grim Ringler
June 1 - 15, 2005
Filmstock International Film Festival
Luton, UK
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 3 - July 3, 2005
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art
Auburn, AL
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
June 3 - 12, 2005
Brooklyn International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 6 - September 16, 2005
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
June 9 - 12, 2005
Winnipeg International Film Festival
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 10, 2005
Internet Movie Database
Fast-forward through the boobs; stay for the loser
EVEN HITLER HAD A GIRLFRIEND
There are so many great scenes in this movie. The drama that is the rise-and-fall of Marcus Templeton is engaging and believable; Andren Scott hits the nail on the head as the archetype of the good-natured, clueless, pathetic sap.
Like Homer Simpson and George Costanza, everyone knows a Marcus, and will probably recognize a little bit of Marcus in themselves.
I can honestly say that this movie has some of the best tragically comic, pathetically poignant one-liners of any movie: 'Can I at least touch your breasts? Well can I at least see them for a minute? Would you like to go home now?'
It's unfortunate then, that the bad scenes (i.e. the 'sexy stripper' scenes) are so prolific and long. You will ask yourself 'were hot girls really that lame and homely in the late eighties?' These seemingly never-ending, awkward strip teases will have the whole room uncomfortable, and the god-awful, noodle-doodle electric guitar accompaniment will serve to heighten the pain.
But then again, that's what the remote control is for... - L. Ron Hagar
June 13 - July 23, 2005
Lakewood Cultural Center
Lakewood, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
June 17 - July 1, 2005
Rome Art Coterie
Rome, GA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
June 30 - July 29, 2005
South Arkansas Arts Center
El Dorado, AR
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
July 1 - 30, 2005
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
Cape Girardeau, MO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
July 7 - 22, 2005
Gallery International
Baltimore, MD
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
July 12, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Palabra
July 12 - August 15, 2005
South Cobb Arts Alliance
Mableton, GA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
July 14 - 21, 2005
Long Island International Film Expo
Bellmore Movies
222 Pettit Ave.
Bellmore, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
July 16, 2005
Freed-Montrose Public Library
4100 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX
The Miranda Project presents a staged reading of Ronnie Cramer's play The Ivory Millstone
July 20 - 24, 2004
VisionFest 05 Independent Showcase
Tribeca Cinemas
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
July 23, 2005
Starz Film Center
Colorado Film Biennial
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
July 30 - August 6, 2005
Woods Hole Film Festival
Cape Cod
Woods Hole, MA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
July - August 2005
Narrows Center for the Arts
Fall River, MA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
August 4 - September 25, 2004
Old Court House Arts Center
Woodstock, IL
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
August 10 - 14, 2005
Crested Butte Reel Fest
Crested Butte, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
August 15, 2005
ArborBlogs
The Modern Pea Pod: Left of West
A couple of months ago, I was lucky enough to see a short piece at the Ann Arbor Film Festival called Pillow Girl by Ronnie Cramer. It was a 'sound-art' work, the most ballyhooed element of which was its soundtrack, electronically created by scanning the covers and inside pages of several tawdry pulp novels and running the resultant binary code through a series of synthesizers. Interesting concept, although it ended up sounding an awful lot like muzak on Valium. What was far more appealing to me, however, was the visual aspect: a series of those very same pulp covers, in all their semi-pornographic glory, blending hypnotically into one another with that cool 'morphing' effect from Michael Jackson's 'Black or White' video. It was a fantastic piece - not necessarily because of the sociopolitical subtext (all those exploited women merging together until they're one faceless, big-busted mass), but because, cheap and trashy though it may be, there's something appealing about pulp/exploitation art. Yes, it's sexist...unashamedly so. But at its best, it's also a bold, unadulterated, unpretentious celebration of female sexuality, one of the few (somewhat) legitimate venues for that kind of thing in the 1940's and '50's. The best pulp art is sexier - not to be confused with dirtier - than any Penthouse centerfold could ever hope to be...and if that's not good art, I don't know what is.
August 17, 2005
Gallery 825
Los Angeles, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 2 - October 1, 2005
Arts Council of Southeast Missouri
Cape Girardeau, MO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
September 15 - October 15, 2004
MFA Circle Gallery
Annapolis, MD
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
September 16 - 18, 2005
Bay Street Film Festival
Thunder Bay, Ontario
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 16 - 18, 2005
Big Bear Lake Film Festival
Big Bear Lake, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 16 - October 8, 2005
Arts Center of Estes Park
Estes Park, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
September 17 - October 14, 2005
Breckenridge Fine Arts Center
Breckenridge, TX
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
September 23 - 25, 2005
Port Townsend Film Festival
Port Townsend, WA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
September 23 - 29, 2005
International Family Film Festival
Santa Clarita, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film A Moment in Time
October 6, 2005
The Union
A peek at some films shown at local festival
Even for those who will think 'Pillow Girl' runs its kaleidoscope too long, this is an ingenious short film. All it does is morph from cover to cover to cover of pulp books and magazines from decades ago - a meticulous parade of romance novel covers, to detective fiction covers, to men-at-war covers. As a parade of narrow themes, it titillates and disturbs and somehow does not feel like a time gone by or an attitude we've outgrown. - Chuck Jaffee
October 7 - 10, 2005
Nevada City Film Festival
Nevada City, California
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 21 - November 4, 2005
Museum of the Gulf Coast
(Texas Artists Museum - Relocated due to hurricane damage)
Port Arthur, TX
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 1 - December 31, 2005
Mesquite Fine Arts Center
Virgin Valley Artists Association
Mesquite, NV
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 9 - 13, 2005
Northampton Independent Film Festival
Northampton, MA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
November 17 - 20, 2005
Queens International Film Festival
Queens, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
November 21 - 26, 2005
Miami Short Film Festival
Tower Theatre
1508 SW 8th St
Miami, FL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
December 11, 2005
21 Grand
416 25th St.
Oakland, CA 94612
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
December 12, 2005
The Lamp
2 Norfolk St.
Hull, England
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles