Ari Marcopoulos: Fiercly Freestyle. At BAM/PFA.

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All-around "great guy" Ari Marcopoulos will appear with his works during a film installment at the Pacific Film Archive of the UC Berkeley art museum. Marcopoulos will be present at the program's opening and closing (November,11 and 18 respectively). The program will continue without him from November 12 to 17.

Nobody, and we mean nobody, gets this kind of praise from BAM/PFA without deserving it:

Marcopoulos doesn’t document the inhabitants of the ecstatic outlands so much as he infiltrates the energy enveloping them, snowboarders on maniacal drops, artists in the whirl of creation, musicians communing with the visceral hum. As a consequence, there’s a celebrity factor to many of Marcopolous’s works. Who else to pursue but those who excel to the extreme: rad riders like Craig Kelly and Terje Håkonsen, or that great prevaricator Jeff Koons; high-velocity skaters like Noah Sakamoto and Patrick Rizzo, or noise noodlers Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon. Marcopoulos has the markings of a musician himself—he’s got a keen ear for the quiet between the notes.

Rarely, if ever, do you get to read "noise noodler" in a sentence. That being said, if Marcopoulos can bring the curators at the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive to conceive imaginative phrasing relating, in any way, to the matters of noise noodles, you can be assured that he can direct the hell out of his films. Check out the flyer for the director/photographer/maven's retrospective after the jump.