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Brett Kashmere’s writing about Nathaniel Dorsky’s A Fall Trip Home

This article on A Fall Trip Home (1964, 11 min, sound) was most generously written for Canyon Cinema by Brett Kashmere and presented on their website.

Image: Nathaniel Dorsky, A Fall Trip Home

Autumn Erotic: Nathaniel Dorsky's A Fall Trip Home

By Brett Kashmere

In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes.

All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home, Their women cluck like starved pullets, Dying for love.

Therefore, Their sons grow suicidally beautiful At the beginning of October, And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies.

James Wright, “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio” (1963)

In America, fall is football season. An evidently irresistible cultural form despite our awakened comprehension of its traumatic aftereffects, the game’s popular appeal depends upon mediation. (This makes sense to me, elementally. Have you ever attended an outdoor football game in Ohio in October?) College football and NFL contests dominate the TV schedule from September to January, spilling further and further across the weekly grid: from Saturday and Sunday afternoons in the 1950s and 60s, to Monday nights (starting in 1970), then Sunday nights (as of 1987), and, since 2006, Thursday nights. Today, game footage is captured with high-speed cameras from every conceivable angle, repeated and dissected in slow motion replays, supplemented by torrents of statistics and a parallel fantasy football industry, in which players become interchangeable with, and reduced to, their data profiles. Mediated football’s affective, sensual pleasures are partly defused and redirected by its high-tech, scientific presentation.

As the media scholar Margaret Morse notes, “Football on television is a world of representation which has abandoned Renaissance space and Newtonian physics – but not the claim to scientificity of sport.”[1]  This recourse to scientific-investigative observation and statistical fixation is a means by which the erotic spectacle of football, wherein men are permitted to touch each other in a variety of aggressive and affectionate ways, is disavowed by its majority straight male audience. The anthropologist William Arens remarks that, while in uniform, “players can engage in hand holding, hugging and bottom patting that would be disapproved of in any other {straight} context, but which is accepted on the gridiron without a second thought.”[2]  And as the folklorist Alan Dundes observes in his psychoanalytic interpretation, the sexually suggestive terms of American football – “penetration,” “tight end,” “hitting the hole,” and so on – combined with the game’s structural goal, of getting into the opponent’s end zone more often than the opponent gets into yours, imply “a thinly disguised symbolic form by, and directed towards, males and males only, {that} would seem to constitute ritual homosexuality.”[3]

Few have lensed this symbolic ritual and pageantry of masculinity as sensuously as the film artist Nathaniel Dorsky. Even more remarkable, Dorsky’s delicate handling of the game and its defining season was made at the tender age of 21. The second film of a career-opening trilogy, A Fall Trip Home (1964), like its sister films Ingreen (1964) and Summerwind (1965), is restrained in its visual concept and skillfully executed. Partially inspired by James Wright’s football poem “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio,” Dorsky’s subjective camera interleaves Northeastern foliage with the tangled, swirling, and collapsing bodies of adolescent footballers as well as close-ups of rapt onlookers. The flow of images is modulated by montage editing, slow motion photography, and floating superimpositions. A Fall Trip Home’s fluid construction was achieved through intuition and simple means, using a synchronizer and A/B rolls: “At that time, I can’t tell you how much one was winging it,” Dorsky explains. “You’d imagine this over that, then this over that. You didn’t really see it, until you got it back from the lab.”[4]

The film begins with an extreme long shot of a train, echoing the title, with fog rising from the distant tree line. A progression of blue-green forested hills and flora follows, signaling early fall. Dorsky’s landscape impressions meld with snippets of kids playing pickup football in a grassy yard, a high school stadium, pieces of mundane game action, a marching band, pompoms, and a cheering audience in dissolving cascades. Throughout the film’s 11-minute running time, images surface, assemble momentarily, then vanish and reemerge. Outside of its initial framing, the film adheres to a nonlinear logic; documentation is suffused with qualities of remembrance and fantasy. A mixing of film stocks adds to this perception of disjunctive timeframes. Most of A Fall Trip Home is shot on Kodachrome II, “the greatest stock they ever made,”[5]  but a passage in the middle of film, of imagery we saw earlier in full color, appears in black-and-white. A grainier, high-speed color stock is used for the final nighttime sequence, accentuating the juxtaposition of exterior and interior scenes visually and temporally.

Dorsky describes the film as “less a psychodrama {though it is that} and more a sad sweet song of youth and death, of boyhood and manhood and our tender earth.”[6]  Dissolves between visuals of players and leaves emphasizes the themes of transformation and maturation. Tenderness is the film’s foremost emotional register[7]  until the conclusion, when A Fall Trip Home takes a sharp turn towards psychodrama. This shift in tone, from affection to anxiety, follows a move into the filmmaker’s family home. We see his mother at the kitchen window backlit by artificial light. It’s getting dark out, and Dorsky is seemingly being called inside. With this move, from public/social/day into private/familial/night, we are cut off from the reverie of male teenaged bodies inscribed in slow motion and layered assemblage. That spell has been broken by the domestic setting. Here we see black-and-white images of planes dropping bombs, connecting football to war, re-photographed off a television monitor. A sense of despair, claustrophobia, and unease attends this final passage. Returning home also entails a reminder of what one needed to leave in the first place.

Roughly speaking, A Fall Trip Home is what its title asserts: a return to the filmmaker’s hometown of Millburn, New Jersey, shot intermittently over the course of a season with his Bolex. At the time, Dorsky was living in Manhattan, a 35-minute train ride away, and attending film courses at New York University. What might be of visual interest to a young artist honing his craft, and, as Scott MacDonald writes, “coming to grips with the combined excitement and terror of gay desire,”[8]  upon returning to the autumnal suburban landscape of his childhood? Given the time, place, and circumstances of its production, it’s not surprising that A Fall Trip Home would focus upon the poetic and aesthetic aspects of football within the context of a seasonal rite, staged here as going home (crucially as a subject in flux). More accurately, it seems fitting that Dorsky would cast his eye on the male homosocial sphere of football, with its regiment of intimate male contact, as subject matter.

As Dorsky explains, “Like a lot of kids, I loved playing touch football after school. I was crazy about it. I mean, in the fall. You only played football in the fall, and you only played baseball in the spring. I loved playing touch football, but I was never on the level that I would want to play varsity high school football. In fact, I was in the marching band. {Laughs.} I was in the orchestra, and then the orchestra was the marching band during football season. So I did go to all of the football games, as a band member.”[9]

Dorsky’s recollections of football are framed within the pleasures of performance, looking, and accompaniment (as band member), at a remove from the competitive and violent physicality of organized tackle football. A Fall Trip Home mobilizes these personal threads into a fascinating counter-narrative of masculinity and erotic longing through primarily visual means – though unlike the majority of Dorsky’s films, A Fall Trip Home does have a soundtrack. Japanese flute music, discovered by the filmmaker in a record store in San Francisco’s Japantown, contributes to the film’s pensive mood and complements the slow-motion imagery. In eschewing the bombastic music most commonly associated with high school and college football – that of the percussive, upbeat marching band – for a solo performance of elegiac, non-Western music, Dorsky heightens his idiosyncratic presentation of this American game.

Image: Nathaniel Dorsky, A Fall Trip Home

A Fall Trip Home is also notable in the way that it anticipates formal advancements in sports media language. Dorsky’s film was shot at the same time that NFL Films was being conceived as a publicity instrument of the National Football League – the ultimate marriage of sports, advertising, and corporate media. Both Dorsky, working with film individually and non-commercially as an artist, and NFL Films, an institutional, large-scale documenting apparatus, used slow motion cinematography and color 16mm film to evoke distinctive visions of football: compassionate in Dorsky’s case, while mythic for NFL Films. The grainy texture of 16mm and the vibrant, high-contrast range of Kodachrome reversal convey a sense of romanticism and nostalgia. Unlike video, which imbues immediacy and “presentness,” film images carry an intrinsic archival effect, a sense of the past. And unlike the slow motion of the instant replay, an electronic process associated with analysis, Dorsky’s use of the technique affirms the theme of, in his words, “a melancholy struggle. I realized that if you slowed down the football players it would turn more into… not a bromance {laughs}, to use a modern word, but slightly eroticized.”[10]  John Fiske similarly observes that the use of slow motion in mediating sports functions “to eroticize power, to extend the moment of climax.”[11]

Dorsky’s film speaks to one of the foremost paradoxes of football. Forged in the culture of the late 19th century Ivy League, football has long been an emblem of white supremacy and heterosexual power, organized as a colonizing conquest of an opponent’s territory. At the same time, football is a homosocial enclave that authorizes the objectification of male bodies for a primarily male gaze: a fraternal exchange which belies the game’s homophobic culture and its racist practices. As scholar Thomas Oates describes, “From its earliest days, football has been a complex and conflicted cultural text, in which seemingly straightforward assertions of the power of white men consistently involve an undercurrent of uncertainty and anxiety.”[12]  In A Fall Trip Home this undercurrent is expressed by a desirous yet detached subjectivity. Male bodies are captured on film, slowed down, studied, but also obscured under layers of superimposition. The film’s specular gaze is complicated by aesthetic rather than scientific mediation. Here, a game in which masculinity is defined and affirmed unfolds in front of the camera, but its homoerotic traces are “masked by the (supposedly) hyper-masculine setting of football.”[13]  The erotic undertones of A Fall Trip Home are circumscribed within the seasonal frame. “I always found … like the composer Mahler, there’s something erotic about autumn, because it’s a season of death, of dying,” Dorsky notes. “That kind of thing sometimes intensifies a kind of erotic compensation, of life itself, as opposed to death.”[14]

A Fall Trip Home’s sensuality circumvents the accepted mythology of American football and in doing so complicates the dominant image of masculinity as embodied and expressed in popular media coverage of the sport. By shifting focus away from heroism, winning, and depictions of physical strength, A Fall Trip Home offers a gentle queering of football’s construction of manliness. At the same time, it highlights – and savors – the homosocial conditions that football creates.

Homosociality provides an important context for understanding what goes on when men watch other men perform in the sporting arena. In Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick explains that “‘Homosocial’ is a word occasionally used in history and the social sciences {to describe} social bonds between persons of the same sex; it is a neologism, obviously formed by analogy with ‘homosexual,’ and just as obviously meant to be distinguished from ‘homosexual.’ In fact, it is applied to such activities as ‘male bonding,’ which may, as in our society, be characterized by intense homophobia, fear and hatred of homosexuality.” Football’s sexually violent hazing rituals are an example of the fear (heterosexual panic) produced by homosociality. “To draw the ‘homosocial’ back into the orbit of ‘desire,’” Sedgwick continues, “of the potentially erotic, then, is to hypothesize the potential unbrokenness of a continuum between homosocial and homosexual – a continuum whose visibility, for men, in our society, is radically disrupted.”[15]

Football, through its enforcement of homosocial but often homophobic behavior, adherence to male authority, and suppression of individual speech, teaches patriarchal thinking and practice. The consequences are considerable. As bell hooks notes, “To indoctrinate boys into the rules of patriarchy, we force them to feel pain and to deny their feelings.”[16]  Football’s culture of violence stems in part from this condition of denial. The tenderness and poeticism that underpins Dorsky’s representation draw, as Sedgwick puts it, the homosocial into the orbit of desire and the potentially erotic. If even for a handful of moments, the viewers of A Fall Trip Home are accorded “the ambiguity of sexual orientation in the liminal state of love for and identification with the object of desire.”[17]

Brett Kashmere is a media artist, historian, curator, and doctoral student in Film & Digital Media at University of California, Santa Cruz. He is also the founding editor of INCITE: Journal of Experimental Media. His writing on experimental cinema, moving image art, sports media, and alternative film exhibition has appeared in Millennium Film Journal, MIRAJ, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, PUBLIC, Senses of Cinema, Carolee Schneemann: Unforgivable, The Films of Jack Chambers, and Coming Down the Mountain: Rethinking the 1972 Summit Series.

1. Margaret Morse, “Sport on Television: Replay and Display,�� in Regarding Television: Critical Approaches – An Anthology, edited by E. Ann Kaplan (Frederick, MD: University Publications of America, 1983), 49. 

2. William Arens, “An Anthropologist Looks at the Rituals of Football,” The New York Times, November 16, 1975, 238. 

3. Alan Dundes, “Into the Endzone for a Touchdown: A Psychoanalytic Consideration of American Football," Western Folklore 37, no. 2 (April 1978): 87. 

4. Nathaniel Dorsky, telephone interview with the author, July 16, 2018. 

5. Dorsky, interview. 

6. “A Fall Trip Home,” Canyon Cinema website, http://canyoncinema.com/catalog/film/?i=802 

7. This quality of tenderness separates A Fall Trip Home from celebrated mainstream cinematic treatments of the sport, such as North Dallas Forty (1979) and Any Given Sunday (1999), which often explore the visceral brutality and degrading aspects of football’s professionalized variant. 

8. Scott MacDonald, “Nathaniel Dorsky,” in A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 78. 

9. Dorsky, interview.

10. Dorsky, interview. 

11. John Fiske, Television Culture (London: Routledge, 1989), 219. 

12. Thomas P. Oates, Manliness and Football: An Unauthorized Feminist Account of the NFL (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017), 8-9. 

13. James L. Cherney and Kurt Lindemann, “Queering Street: Homosociality, Masculinity, and Disability in Friday Night Lights,” Western Journal of Communication 78, no. 1 (January–February 2014): 2. 

14. Dorsky, interview. 

15. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (New York: Columbia University Press, 1985), 1-2. 

16. bell hooks, “Understanding Patriarchy,” in The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (New York: Atria Books, 2004), 18. 

17. Morse, “Sport on Television,” 57. 

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HS sports: Houston area’s spring signees

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The last signing period of the school year started Wednesday with numerous Houston area athletes inking their letters of intent in various sports.

Some will sign later in the spring with the period lasting until August.

The following is a comprehensive list of signees from around the city. It will be updated throughout the spring.

Any updates or corrections can be e-mailed to adam.coleman@chron.com.

Cross Country/Track and Field Sophia Matchett, Montgomery – Dallas Baptist Keyanah Browning, Caney Creek – Cameron University Jake Dillow, College Park – Incarnate Word Roger Ethridge, College Park – Texas A&M Robert Kraus, College Park – Southern Arkansas University Abby Bali, Pasadena Memorial – UTSA Kenneth Pree, Clear Brook – University of Houston Riley Cross, Tomball – Stephen F. Austin Hunter Davis, George Ranch – North Alabama Colton Pounders, George Ranch – Letourneau University Maia Davenport, South Houston – Ottawa University Jacob Adair, George Ranch – University of Houston Alyssa Balandran, Tompkins – Rice University Dan D’Rovencourt, Tompkins – Trinity University Duben Nwachukwu, Tompkins – Texas A&M – Corpus Christi Amber Johnson, Waltrip – Prairie View A&M Kaitlyn Banas, Cypress Ranch – University of Arkansas Brooklynn Barton, Cypress Ranch – College of Charleston Ahmad Young, Langham Creek – Louisiana Tech University Golden Eke, Langham Creek – Oklahoma Demi Oliver, Deer Park – Dallas Baptist Emily Kent, Deer Park – Dallas Baptist

Softball Kimani Ferguson, Langham Creek – Texas Wesleyan Alexa von Gontard, Montgomery – University of Missouri-Kansas City Skyler Teague, Montgomery – Hendrix College Rylee Hazlewood, Montgomery – Sam Houston State Bailey Richey, Galena Park – LeTourneau University Kassandra Vargas, Galena Park – Lamar State – Port Arthur Julia Vazquez, Galena Park – Jarvis Christian Carah Delao, Clear Creek – University of Dallas Lindsey Leistad, Clear Creek – University of Nebraska at Kearney Jessica Skladal, Clear Creek – Syracuse University Shelby Kuffel, Kempner – Hill College Ivy Shimkus, Terry – Texas Southern University Savana Mata, Pasadena Memorial – Lamar University Hannah Garcia, Pasadena Memorial – East Texas Baptist Gabby Rodriguez, Pasadena Memorial – Howard Payne Samara Lagway, Willis – Texas State McKenzie Parker, Willis – Texas Savannah Buhl, Willis – East Texas Baptist Aubri Ford, Willis – Texas Southern Alexis Barton, Clear Brook – Alvin Community College Hailey McDowell, George Ranch – Simpson College Jolie Duong, Bellaire – Army- West Point Annette Cardenas, Chavez – Coastal Bend College Alyssa Vasquez, Heights – Spoon River College Marissa Maldonado, Northside – Laredo Community College

ALIGNMENT: Baseball, spring sports learn UIL alignments

Football John Anthony Robinson, Langham Creek – Mary Hardin Baylor Caleb Thomas, Langham Creek – Texas Lutheran University Nick Ojonta, Langham Creek – Millsaps College Marcus Garza, Caney Creek – Lyon College Amon Byars, Terry – Army West Point Derrick Ray, Terry – Houston Baptist University Robert Alexander, Terry – Wayland Baptist University Marc Bentancur, Terry – Buena Vista University Calvin Simms, Terry – Bethany College Damion Rush, Terry – Bacone College Noah Delahoussaye, Montgomery – Austin College Alex Williams, Pasadena Memorial -Sam Houston State Trevor Robinson, Pasadena Memorial – Henderson State University Michael Mexicano, Pasadean Memorial – Central Methodist University Nathan Prevost, Clear Brook – Austin College Josh Green, Clear Brook – Austin College Dalton Reichardt, Clear Brook – Austin College Dwight Daniel, Clear Brook – Bacone College Will Brown, Lamar Consolidated – SMU Ryan Shockency, Lamar Consolidated – Mary Hardin-Baylor Quivance Giles, Lamar Consolidated – Penn Drake Staten, Lamar Consolidated – Bueno Vista Jordan Khalil, Clements –Mary Hardin Baylor Kendall Pickens, Clements – Wisconsin Lutheran College Sonje Washington, Clements – North Park University Darius Reece, Willis – Blinn College Jake Jones, Willis – Blinn College Taion Chatman, Willis – Blinn College Jermarcus White, Willis – Blinn College Jarvis Howard, Bellaire – Mary Hardin Baylor Jordan Love, Bellaire – Carnegie Mellon Univ. Stephon Ashby, Chavez – Blinn Jai Cooper, Chavez – Texas A&T Dominic Franklin, Chavez – Texas Southern Dashawn Williams, Madison – Kilgore Junior College Jaquel Hamm, Madison – Navarro Dee McCoy, Westside – Texas Wesleyan Ezechiel Mukule, Wisdom – St. Vincent College (PA) Tra’Vonta Carpenter, Yates – San Diego Mesa College Lance Jones, Manvel – University of Mary Hardin Baylor Kadir Ali, Manvel – Cincinnati Christian University Mateo Pritzkau, Cypress Ranch – Austin College

Girls Basketball Erica Strawn, Caney Creek – Arlington Baptist College Domonique Mucker, Manvel – Talladega College Madison Becker, Alvin – Baker University Natalie Miller, Alvin – UT-Dallas Celeste Clement, Clear Brook – Oklahoma Wesleyan Yasmine Arogunjo, Westside – Blinn College Jada Russ, Wheatley – Lane College Chade Gladney, Yates – Cisco College Briana Cloud, Yates – Cisco College Alexandra Pollard, Cy-Fair – Texas Southern University Dezeree White, Langham Creek – Our Lady of the Lake University Mariel Wade, Langham Creek – Blinn College Makenna Clark, North Shore – Concordia University

Boys Basketball C.J. Washington, Tompkins – Kennesaw State Tristan Ikpe, Deer Park – Blinn College Kimani Anderson, College Park – Maine Maritime Marine Academy Byron Brown, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Keaton Taylor, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Isaiah Blackmon, Lamar Consolidated – Ellsworth CC Kyle Poerschke, Langham Creek – Southwestern University Drew McCammon, Langham Creek – Schreiner University Dralyn Brown, South Houston – Angelina JC Emmanuel White, Tompkins –Blinn College Jonathan Ogugua, Heights – Butler CC Terrell Wilson, Fort Bend Marshall – Midwestern State Ashton McClelland, Cypress Ranch – Texas Southern University

Volleyball Ayana Tabor, North Shore – Our Lady of the Lake Kristen Armstrong, North Shore – Hardin Simmons University Kelsey Fitts, Caney Creek – Ranger Junior College Delanie Coroiescu, Caney Creek – Oklahoma Baptist University Gloria Pulido, Galena Park – Austin College Corine Stephens, Pearland – Kentucky Wesleyan College Mallory Talbert, Montgomery – Texas A&M Jordan Russell, Clear Brook – University of Houston Breana August, Clear Brook – Eastfield College Jaycie Dunn, Lamar Consolidated – Arlington Baptist Catherine Drapela, Lamar Consolidated – Houston Baptist Dani Dagley, Tompkins – Northwestern Oklahoma State University Kailyn O’Neal, Tompkins -Southern Connecticut State University Jada Lewis, Wheatley – Paul Quinn College Shelby Browning, Manvel – Eastfield Community College Aeris Ramsey, Manvel – West Texas A&M Natalie Garcia, Cypress Ranch – Navarro College

Baseball Jake Eschenfelder, College Park – Mary Hardin Baylor Kyle Jackson, College Park – Arkansas Baptist College Travis Washburn, College Park – Lamar University Alec Carr, Kempner – Texas Simeon Woods Richardson, Kempner – Texas Noah Huerta, Kempner – Texas Tech Sutton Dole, Langham Creek – Stevens Institute of Technology Ryan Finke, Pearland – Angelina College Sam Velazquez, Pearland – Schreiner University Cason Wachel, Montgomery – Tyler Junior College Jacob Prigmore, Montgomery – Tarleton State Ben Shields, Montgomery – University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Josh Trahan, College Park – UT – Tyler Daylon Farmer, College Park – Tyler Junior College Brandon Birdsell, Willis – Texas A&M Heath Backhus, Willis – Weatherford Junior College Jace Mapston, Willis – Paris Junior College Mitch Turner, Willis – Northeast Texas Junior College Elijah Taleff-Scott, Shadow Creek – Missouri Valley University Charles Gordon, Alvin – LSU Eunice Jade Gordon, Alvin -Frank Phillips College Spencer Ouellette, Alvin – Houston Baptist University Zach Visser, Tompkins – Southwestern Christian University Wilson Ehrhardt, Tompkins – Hill Junior College Jorge Vargas, Tompkins – Dean College Brett Garner, Cypress Ranch – Austin College Ian Veserra, Cypress Ranch – Centenary College of Louisiana Sergio Gutierrez, Aldine MacArthur – University of Houston-Downtown Micah Russell, Heights – University of Houston-Downtown Jesus Sanchez, Bellaire – University of Houston-Downtown Gavin Alvarez, Terry – University of Houston-Downtown Jaiden Anderson, Kashmere – University of Houston-Downtown Risiah Curtis, Humble – University of Houston-Downtown David Diaz, Northside – University of Houston-Downtown Jeremiah Gant, Heights – University of Houston-Downtown Julian Maldonaldo, Terry – University of Houston-Downtown Matthew Tolliver, Madison – University of Houston-Downtown Richard Trevino, Klein Forest – University of Houston-Downtown Channing Vernon, Lamar Consolidated – University of Houston-Downtown Alex Villanueva, Klein Collins – University of Houston-Downtown Maurice Castille, Hightower – University of Houston-Downtown Mario Castillo, Bush – University of Houston-Downtown John Cerda, Aldine – University of Houston-Downtown Franklin Daniels, Clear Brook – University of Houston-Downtown Alex Duarte, Sharpstown – University of Houston-Downtown Darrian Henry, Alvin – University of Houston-Downtown Kendale Santee, Yates – University of Houston-Downtown Luis Portillo, Cristo Rey – University of Houston-Downtown Brannon Shoaf, Shadow Creek – University of Houston-Downtown Alejandro Jose Avilla, North Forest – University of Houston-Downtown Genaro Cardenas, Waltrip – University of Houston-Downtown Ruden Cavazos, Furr – University of Houston-Downtown Bobby Davis, Sterling – University of Houston-Downtown Jacob Dela Cerda, Jersey Village – University of Houston-Downtown Jake Everett, Atascocita – University of Houston-Downtown George Garza, North Shore – University of Houston-Downtown J. Hernandez, Aldine MacArthur – University of Houston-Downtown Jokobie Jenkins, Shadow Creek – University of Houston-Downtown Jose Luis, Aldine – University of Houston-Downtown Matthew Mendoza, North Shore – University of Houston-Downtown Gabriel Parades, Yates – University of Houston-Downtown Joel Renteria, Furr – University of Houston-Downtown Issac Perez, Cristo Rey – University of Houston-Downtown Court Cosco, Spring Woods – Rhodes College

Golf Bailey Farmer, Alvin – Howard Payne University Caleb Duplechin, Alvin – Coffeyville Community College Iliana Stowers, Montgomery – Incarnate Word Steven Boyd, Langham Creek – Prairie View A&M Hailee Cooper, Montgomery – Texas Reagan Deaton, Montgomery – University of Texas at Dallas Cameron Newhouse, Montgomery – McNeese State Alyssa Goins, Pearland – University of St. Thomas Jzeke Dukes, Washington – Prairie View A&M Cristian Polk, Clear Falls – Hesston College

Tennis Elaina Evans, Kempner – Concordia University Sneha Karnan, Kempner – Case Western Anish Sriniketh, Tompkins – St. Edwards University Dylan Payne, Cypress Ranch – Rensalear Poly Institute (RPI)-NY Varun Thachil, Cypress Ranch – Case Western Reserve University

Swimming and Diving/Water Polo Alexandria Perry, Deer Park – Henderson State Spencer Tybur, College Park – Golden West College Jordan Castillo, Clear Creek – University of California – Santa Barbara Libby Goode, Clear Creek – Trinity University Peyton Roemer, Clear Creek – Incarnate Word Jenny Yu, Dawson – MIT Daria Hatter, Dawson – University of Pittsburgh Charles Yuen, Clements – Trinity University Myles Pickens, Clememts – McMurry University Jacob Won, Tompkins – University of South Dakota Jade Kemp, Tompkins – Austin College Reilly Swain, Tompkins – Memorial University of Newfoundland Ana Lucia Garza, Tompkins – University of the Incarnate Word Hailee Rice, Manvel – University of the Ozarks Jack Venker, Cy-Fair – Army – West Point Riley Dafoe, Cy-Fair – Florida State Sean Calvert, Cypress Ranch – Southwestern University

Wrestling Edwin Benavides, Northside – Wayland Baptist Kayla Fitts, Cypress Ranch – Wayland Baptist University

Girls Soccer Sasha Moreira, Northbrook – Angelina College Bayleigh Smith, Alvin – Eastern Oklahoma State College Rachel Garant, Cypress Ridge – University of Houston Eva Phillips, Langham Creek – Angelina College Aeriana Lewis, North Shore – St. Thomas

Boys Soccer Carlos Rodriguez, Alvin – Mary Hardin-Baylor Anuar Contreras, Langham Creek – Ouachita Baptist University Trent Connor, Langham Creek – Southwestern University

Equestrian Amelia Nelson, George Ranch – South Dakota State

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Episode 602: David Hartt

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Astria Suparak and Brett Kashmere, Goals, 2015

GOALS is a floor installation that superimposes the goals of six major team sports into an actual scale “color field” abstraction of hollow winning.

Source: Astria Suparak

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Top 5 of the Week: Feb. 9th - 15th

Hello readers,

If the weather doesn't inevitably kill you or freeze the hair right off your body (one of my roommates came home with a beard full of icicles today), here is a list what to see this week: 

La Cinématéque Québécoise:

Thursday, February 12th at 7:00pm: Brett Kashmere's From Deep (2014)

Thursday, February 12th at 8:30pm: René Vautier's Avoir 20 ans dans les Aurés (1972) in 16mm

Friday, February 13th at 6:30pm: Roy Calnek's Ten Nights in a Barroom (1926) in 35mm

Saturday, February 14th at 7:00pm: Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's Les Révoltés de l'an 2000 (¿Quién puede matar a un niño?) (1976) in 16mm

Cinema de Parc:

From Monday, February 9th at 1:00pm and 3:00pm, and Tuesday, February 10th to  Thursday February 12th at 1:00, 3:00, and 7:00pm: Maxime Giroux's Félix and Meria (2014)

From Monday, February 9th to Wednesday February 11th at 1:30, 5:00 and 6:45pm and again on Thursday February 12th at 1:30 and 5:00pm: Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland's Still Alice (2014)

And if any of you are like me and have yet to see Isao Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013) will be playing on Friday, February 13th

And just in case today is any indication of what the weather has in store for us for rest of the week, Spike Lee's Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) is available on Vimeo on Demand along with some other interesting titles should you be so inclined to stay indoors (no one would blame you).  

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Truth at 24 Frames Per Second and Ball Don’t Lie: Brett Kashmere’s From Deep at UnionDocs

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Top of the Line issue 5 online! THANK YOU!

TOP OF THE LINE #5 is Online for your enjoyment!

Issue 1-6 is for sale HERE with our friends at Birdcage Bottom Books!

Special thanks to Greg and Fake, Brett Kashmere, Lara Brodsky, Caley Ross, Christine! Rigby!, horizonfactory, Nick Marino, Kate Matthews, Adam Atkinson, michael mcAghon, Alyson Youngblood, Laura Benack, Carlton Solle, Kara Petraglia, Zoe McCloskey, J@n-T0sh G., Brett Douglas Davis, Kevan Comic Art, Matthew Caron, Matt Mets, RhymesMcFist, Nathan Seabolt, Brian Artiaco, Shawn Atkins, and ozzy ozwalled for supporting the online publication of Top of the Line!

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24hour Drawathon: scedule of visitors and prizes

REMEMBER THIS IS ALL ONLINE. YOU JUST NEED TO CLICK HERE AT THE TIMES BELOW FOR A CHANCE TO WIN!

Nov 20th 2010 (all in EST)

Noon-1pm Kickoff Dan sits down and gets into his groove.

1-2pm Appearances by Tameka Cage Conley and  Brett Kashmere. Brett will be bringing a copy of INCITE #4: Journal of Experimental Media, EXHIBITION GUIDE, with designwork by Jasen Lex and Dvd compilation with an Art Noose letterpress printed the cover. Tameka, as always, will be a surprise.

3-4pm Jasen Lex will be stopping by with a couple issues of Washington Unbound.

5-6pm Max Wheeler with his awesome bear totem t-shirt.

6:30-7:30pm Becky Slemmons will be stopping by with little paintings. She's an amazing local artist with an international reputation.

9-10pm Sarah Laponte, photographer as small press proprietor, will drop in with a surprise bonus gift! We can guess but we cannot know!

10-11pm I'll be giving away the SIX GALLERY REVIEW spring 2011 anthology. It's a little book with a lot of Pittsburgh writers.

Midnight-1am Nils Skeletonballs, Northside Chronicle strip artist and graphic novelist, will be signing a limited edition copy of Ship of Soiled Doves. 

2-3am I'll be giving away up to 3 copies of Your's, truly by the amazing local experience artist Nina Sarnelle.

4-5am Gupter Puncher issue 14 was shipped to me by Zizek Press in Hong Kong. It's a cool and crazy zine from cinephiles on the other side of the planet.

5-6am Jasdeep Khaira will be stopping by with a stack of Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities

7-8am I'll be giving away a rare, used copy of Jonothan Brodsky's Make your Own Truth.

9am-10am I'll be giving away a copy of Thomas Scioli's awesome new comic, Final Frontier, signed by the author with a Top of the Line inspired pencil sketch.

10am-11am I'll be giving away a copy of Providence Comic's Consortium Showcase #6. Only 300 in existence with tons of awesome drawings and comics from kids at libraries in Providence RI, and grown up renditions by artists such as Daniel McCloskey, Nathan Bulmer, Michael Deforge, Olivia Horvath, and Mike Taylor!

Noon FINALE! Daniel McCloskey will read cards sent to him by well-wishers, make closing (probably emotional and nonsensical) statements, and go to bed.

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