The art organization created
the Second Friday Film Forum
to show local and regional
independent films
BY AMY LICHTY
PULSE REPORTER
The Downtown Initiative for the Vi
sual Arts, or DIVA, has served as a
vehicle forthe visual arts in Eugene
for well over a year, and the growth
and expansion of this organization
into more than justan art gallery has
created much excitement through
out the community. The Initiative has
sponsored and produced several
media arts events and exhibits that
have included film and video screen
ings, workshops, performances and
guest artist presentations, just to
name a few.
One of DIVA's fastest growing
events is the Second Friday Film Fo
rum, which provides an opportunity
to view independent films and
videos made by both local and
regional artists.
"The premise behind Second Fri
day Film Forum isto basically try to
get artists, usually from Oregon, to
bring in their work to show," Hank
Weintraub, a member of DIVA's Media
Arts Committee, said. "We also try to
bring the actual artist in as well. This
gives them a chance to kind of explain
themselves and their films and the au
dience can ask questions as well."
The types of movies shown at DIVA
every second Friday of the month vary
greatly, from documentaries on the
gay and lesbian experience in the
Middle East, to films exploring what it
is like to be the only African American
at punk-rock shows. The goal of the
Second Friday Film Forum is to open
the audience's eyes to films not
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and moving became an almost annual event, but he never ventured far from
La Puente. In 1993, Calvary’s mother and brother moved to Oregon, where his
mother had grown up. At the time, Calvary was working as a production assis
tant and an extra on films such as "Forrest Gump," "Ed Wood" and "Air
heads," although the only credits he appears in are for a B movie called "De
molition Day." In 1995, he decided to join his mother and brother.
"I had visited Oregon a lot as a kid, and I always liked it here," Calvary said.
"When I finally decided to get the hell out of California, I figured the best place
to stay is somewhere that you know people and can
with Playboy Magazine. According to www.cherrypepper.com, the kind of girls
that Calvary was drawn to were rarely represented in such mainstream publica
tions. He wanted to representthe beauty of women who weren tairbrushed and
surgically enhanced, so he found models and shot them on a 35 mm camera. As
the project went on, complications arose that made him decide he would never
do it again: Girls were dropping out atthe last minute, angry boyfriends were at
tempting to sue him and long hours spent on design and photo development
were getting tiresome.
Two years later, Calvary began receiving calls on a weekly basis from
crash on a couch."
When Calvary was a child, he would change the
dialogue in comic strips, making copies for himself
and his sister. In high school, he discovered Fact
sheet 5, a guide to zines and alternative publish
ing, and was amazed to find out how many
self-publishers were outthere. Inspired by
the thought that if others were doing it, so
could he. Calvary began working on vari
ous projects that he eventually aban
doned. An early attempt at a submis
sion-based zine called Swoon yielded
a crop of grim and cliche high school
poetry that didn't excite Calvary
much. He planned to publish his
next contributor-based collec
tion, Fragile, but was delayed by
various factors. He later aban
doned the project after dis
covering that one of the
submissions was a word
for-word copy of a column by
Dave Barry.
In 1998, Calvary produced his first copy of the
carbon based mistake, originally titled retarded children
love comics. It wasn't until issue No. 3 that this became the subtitle
underthe umbrella of the carbon based mistake. Calvary has produced a total
of 10 issues, each one different from the last in both content and appearance.
Issue No. 4, "Things You Told Me in Confidence," is a 16-page, folded and sta
women wno wanteato poseTorine magazine, ne Douyma uiyuai uameia
and decided to bring the magazine back, this time with a clear vision of
what he wanted it to be. So far he has released four issues, one in full
color, and has received very positive response. He is most
proud of the praise he has received from women
about the magazine.
have always supported
(cherrypepper) because
I thinkthat it's neces
sary," said Julia Calvary,
who has posed forthe mag
azine herself. "In other publi
cations there is always a
sense of trying to create a per
sonality in the women, whereas
Marc uses the girls' personalities
to create the photos."
The models for cherrypepper
choose their own clothing and environ
ments for the shoots. When the shoot is
over, Calvary goes through the photos with
the models and gets rid of any photos the
girls don't like. He makes the magazine from
what is left
Another of Calvary's projects is the Art Ex
change Program grant, which began as an idea
between him and his friends to exchange art with
one another, and was eventually developed into a
contest open to all self-publishers as a way to give
them something for their work. The contest has no
pled, photocopied collection ot unsolicited contessions made to mm Dy
friends and patrons of the bar where he worked. It simply lists 25 secrets, such
as "you get sexually aroused by the music from Nintendo games. Especially
Super Mario Brothers," and "you used to drown your wife's cats because you
hated them... you told herthey must be running away." His most recent issue,
"The Noise Between Static," is better described as a book. It is 100 pages,
bound ratherthan stapled, and contains photography, short stories, an essay
on a lucid dream, a story told in receipts and much more.
"What I love about self-publishing is that there are no limitations or demo
graphics you have to caterto," Calvary said. "You can do whatyou want and it
doesn't matter if anyone reads it."
Calvary started another publication in 1998 in response to his disappointment
entry fee and a prize of $150. The contest is open to any original submissions
created for the print medium. Due to the broad definition of eligible submis
sions, Calvary is hoping to obtain sponsors and eventually award prizes for in
dividual categories such as zines, art books and comics.
"I always said I would be a great rich person and that one of the first things I
would do is organize a grant," Calvary said.
Calvary hopes to complete issue No. 11 of the carbon based mistake, the
second Sad Libs (a parody of Mad Libs), and issue No. 5 of cherrypepper by
April. For more information on Mark Calvary and his Art Exchange Program
grant, visitwww.thecarbonbasedmistake.com.
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