The Engine Collision Festival (ECF)  is an intimate, 11 day celebration of fringe artists from all over the world.  Beginning February 28, 2009 in Los Angeles, this eclectic program of Cinema, performance and Multimedia dynamically presents – the current state of ‘Genre’, the influence of past, and the vision of future.  Privileged to be involved, the New Orleans Airlift will screen short films feature a live performance by Scary Toesies, closing with DJ Rusty Lazer’s Bounce afterparty!

Among Engine Collision Fest headliners:

David Lynch will be screening a selection of unavailable short works.

Slamdance Film fest has put together a night of their 2009 winners.

Extreme films from the Parisian underground, headlining rare work from Gaspard Noe (Irreversible / I stand Alone).

A free week long program of multi-disciplined arts, this festival of guilt discusses the concept of art as a luxury good proving that from outsider art to conceptual art, all creative practice has a value invested that often exceeds its perceived commercial value.

New Orleans Airlift artist’s Scary Toesies and Delaney Martin exhibit films in Luxury Goods, with DJ Rusty Lazer livening up the January 28 London opening of with a Bounce set straight from his bedroom in New Orleans (while eating fried chicken from Captain Sals)!

Curator/Artist Myrtle Von Damitz‘s critically acclaimed show “Antiabecedarians”, featuring 32 artists from New Orleans’ past, present and future opened this month at Barrister’s Gallery.  Starting with a packed opening and all-night dance party in the balmy January night, Antiabecedarians has transitioned to a successful running show that has seen works sell to visiting collectors from New York and beyond and will be tentatively traveling this summer in conjunction with the New Orleans Airlift’s visit to Berlin for the Berlin Lacht performance festival.  The show runs through the first week of February, don’t miss your chance to stop by and meet Myrtle to catch up with this long-running gallery’s ongoing events!

New Orleans NOW

Jay Pennington & Delaney Martin expose what life’s like under the radar in New Orleans, offering a portfolio of New Orleans artists photographed by their friends.

PLUS: Quintron talks to Nels Cline

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