UPCOMING EVENTS

Wholphin Screening in LA
Tuesday, April 28th, 2008
Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Ave, Los Angeles
8pm

Join us for Wholphin's return to the Silent Movie Theatre on Tuesday, April 29th. We will be screening a selection of films from the upcoming sixth issue of Wholphin, including a documentary about a class of Chinese third graders who hold a democratic election for classroom monitor and in the process end up hilariously, if unintentionally, mocking 300 years of American Politics; a beautifully black, comic exploration of 70s England that isn't, but could easily be, the prequel to A Clockwork Orange; the winner of the Wholphin Award at this year's SXSW, Benh Zeitlin's Glory at Sea; an animated fake rock star taking on a heroin-addicted carnival monkey; drunk bees and more!

PAST EVENTS

Wholphin 5 Screening at NoisePop!
Thursday, February 28, 2008
12 Galaxies - 2565 Mission St, San Francisco
7pm $5

Grab a beer at the bar and dig in to the Wholphin portion of the evening which will feature a variety of short films concerning giant paper airplanes, drunk bees, satanic Scottish 9-year-old metal heads, Moroccan drummers, world champion one-handed blind-folded Rubix Cube masters, the ancient art of tree-hanging, a consumer service announcement to identify cloned meat products music video, a dissertation on the healing power of YouTube shred videos, and a short film staring singing Darfuri rebels that was literally smuggled out of Sudan in the back of a horse cart. Plus, a few guests that one would call "special."

For more information on Noise Pop, go here.

Thom Powers Presents Wholphin at Stranger Than Fiction
IFC Center
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
8:00PM
323 Avenue of the Americas, New York

Editor Brent Hoff will screen a selection of Wholphin docs concerning giant paper airplanes, drunk bees, satanic Scottish 9-year-olds, the world champion one-handed blind-folded Rubix Cube master, the ancient art of tree-hanging, an infuriating expose of the US Govt.'s arm twisting, horse thieving assault on two Shoshone Indian grannies, and a short film about Darfuri rebels literally smuggled out of Sudan in the back of a horse cart.
Stranger Than Fiction pass holders will receive a free copy of Wholphin.

San Franciscans: Jessica Yu's new film, The Protagonist, will be opening at the Kabuki Theatre on Friday, December 14th and like Sour Death Ball's before it, the film observes people squirming in truly uncomfortable situations, except this time instead of a painfully sour attack on the salivary glands, it's men falling victim to Euripidian extremism. And yes, there is a tragic puppet chorus. Find out more about it here.

Wholphin No. 5 Pre-Release Screening Party in LA
Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:00 PM
Los Angeles, CA: SILENT MOVIE THEATER (611 N. Fairfax Ave.)
The first ever LA screening of Wholphin will be taking place at the Silent Movie Theatre. The interactive event will likely involve short films about, and live entertainment from; drunk bees, bioluminescent squirt guns, the world's fastest one-handed blindfolded Rubik's cube champion, Satanic nine-year-olds, an incredible documentary recently smuggled out of Darfur, Sudan, and more. Beats SARS.

Tickets - $6

Screening of "A Day with Darfuri Rebels"
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 8:00 PM
San Francisco, CA: Station 40 (3030B 16th St. @Mission)
Everyone talks about Darfur, this place we should be doing more about, or for, or against, and everyone bravely tries to pronounce "Janjaweed" correctly, but filmmakers David Martinez and Shane Bauer have just returned from Darfur and they have brought back an amazing film of that place we hear a lot about but never get to see. If you're in the Bay Area on Wednesday December 14th, 2007 we would like to plant mental mind control messages in your brain compelling you to come see an early preview of their incredible film, "A Day With Darfuri Rebels," which will appear on the upcoming Wholphin No. 5.
More info below:

Friday, December 8, 2006:
Berkeley, CA: PEGASUS (2349 Shattuck Ave.) 7:30PM
We're trading our pizza for your rapt attention.

Seattle, WA: RAVENNA THIRD PLACE BOOKS (6504 20th Ave. NE) 6:00PM
Despite a more significant distance, we've negotiated a similar pizza/audience brokerage.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006:
Last chance to get Wholphin No. 2 as part of a subscription. This issue featured Steven Soderbergh, the writers of The Daily Show, two Oscar-nominated animated shorts, Andy Richter, Donald Trump, and a monkey-faced eel. Glimpse these wonders here.

Monday, November 13, 2006:
Columbia, MO: RAGTAG (23 N. 10th St.) 5:15PM
Brent Hoff will screen films from the upcoming Wholphin No. 3.

Sunday, November 12, 2006:
St Louis, MO: SLFF Tivoli Theatre (6350 Delmar Boulevard) 9:30PM
Brent Hoff will present a selection of Wholphin films on the big screen at the St. Louis International Film Festival.

Wholphin No. 3 is coming in mid-December.
Check out the Issues page for a sneak peak!

Friday, September 15, 2006:
Houston, TX: Domy Bookstore (1709 Westherimer) 9-10pm
Aurora Picture Show presents editor, Brent Hoff and Wholphin Screening of Wholphin #1

Saturday, September 16, 2006:
Houston, TX: Aurora Picture Show (800 Aurora St.) 8-10pm
Screening of Wholphin #2.

Sunday, September 17, 2006
Houston, TX: Aurora Picture Show (800 Aurora St.) 3-5pm
Advanced screening of Wholphin #3 at Aurora Picture Show.

NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 27TH, 2006
Bumbershoot: One Reel Film Festival
Saturday, September 2 at 7pm in the McCaw Lecture Hall
Curator, Brent Hoff, will screen and discuss shorts, seen and unseen.
More information...

NEWS FOR THE WEEK OF AUGUST 13TH, 2006
WHOLPHIN is looking for nice interns in the Bay Area with FCP skills!
Contact: contiguity@wholphindvd.com

The color of the week is:

RGB: 24, 129, 65
HEX: #228141
HSB: 140, 74, 51
CMYK: 74, 0, 50, 49

I am not an aging surfer!

For Milwaukeeites:
August 15th, 2006
Milwaukee, WI: Harry W. Schwartz Bookstore (2559 N. Downer Ave.) 7:00 PM
Head over to Harry W. Schwartz bookstore to see Wholphin no. 2 on the "big screen." They're providing the projector; McSweeney's will send the pizza.

For Baltimoreians:
August 17th, 2006
Baltimore, MD: Atomic Pop (3620 Falls Rd, 21211) 8:00 PM
Atomic Pop (that's Atomic Books' fledgling event space) is hosting a Wholphin screening/pizza party of its own. Both of these events are free and open to the public.

WHOLPHIN ISSUE #3 ANNOUNCEMENT:

A few years ago Paul Thomas Anderson made a short film starring none-other than Elliott Smith, as a Rastafarian basketball player. Amazing, right? If Paul can find it in one of his 4 storage units in LA he has graciously promised to let you see it.

Also, a man does not just come up with scenes like the "Fuck me Mr. M" scene in Election out of thin air. No. Alexander Payne was seriously, torturously, funny even in college and we have his first student film to prove it.

Plus, hopefully, an excerpt from this compelling new Zidane documentary, and oh man so much more. We are peeing ourselves with glee.

WHOLPHIN ISSUE #2 ANNOUNCEMENT:

We are sorry that Wholphin #2 is not yet spinning in your DVD players, but we wish to share with you the very good reason for the delay.

When Steven Soderbergh emails you to say that he's willing to take a day out of the hyperproductive tornado of his life to make a short cinematic homage to Godard's Alphaville for your little upstart DVD magazine, you stop production and praise Ganesha for your unbelievable good fortune. Ganesha is the mischievous Hindu god whose head was cut off by his father Shiva, replaced with the head of an elephant, and now rides around on a mouse. So. OK.

In short, there will be a Soderbergh original on the next DVD (along with monkey-faced eels, melting heads, sour death balls and more), and it ships mid-June.

Thank you for your patience.
-Wholphin