Thursday, March 17, 2011

2011 Sarasota International Film Festival



In April, 2011, Target Video will present hours of footage from its archive at the 2011 Sarasota International Film Festival in Sarasota, Florida.  “Futility Is Resistance: Treasures for the Target Video Archive (1977-1984)” is spread across three evenings and the shows will represent several geographical areas: Los Angeles, New York and Europe and San Francisco.  The shows will focus on bands and the activities Target was involved with during the art and punk music scene of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s.  The shows will include legendary bands like the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag and X with nugget treasures like Snuky Tate, Nash the Slash and John Cooper Clarke.  Be there for three nights of feature length shows April 14 (Los Angeles) April 15 (NY/Europe) and April 16 (San Francisco.)  All shows start at 9:15 pm at the Regal Hollywood 20 theater, 1993 Main Street, Sarasota, Florida.