January 17 - February 19, 2006
Shafer Gallery
Great Bend, KS
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
January 19 - 22, 2006
Beloit International Film Festival
Beloit, WI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
January 19, 2006
Beloit Daily News
Beloit International Film Festival
Pillow Girl: Originally a sound-art work created for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver by musician/artist Ronnie Cramer, who scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks, then ran the collected image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files were then processed and remixed into the soundtrack for Pillow Girl film; the visual portion of the film makes use of the 150 covers, with one illustrated figure morphing into the next every two seconds.
February 2 - 26, 2006
Gallery West
1213 King St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
February 3 - 9, 2006
Spokane International Film Festival
The Met
901 W. Sprague Ave.
Spokane, WA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
February 24 - 26, 2006
Golden Star Shorts Fest
Egyptian Theatre
Hollywood, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Named Best Experimental Film
February 28 - March 2, 2006
Keene State College
229 Main St.
Keene, NH 03431
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl in conjunction with George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren�s Profession directed by Peggy Rae Johnson
March 2006
Indianapolis Monthly
Reel Life
Brian Owens, founder of the Indianapolis International Film festival, lingers in the lobby to discuss Indy moviegoers, the Oscars, penguins and Porkys
In it's third year, the festival (April 26 - May 5) looks to be bigger than ever. Are you poised for a breakout year?
We showed 27 films in 2004, our first year. This year we should have approximately 100. In previous years we used just one theater, but we're expanding to multiple venues this year.
What movie at this years' festival are you most excited about?
A south African film called U-Carmen eKhayelitsha. It's Bizet's classic opera Carmen, translated into one of the 11 official South African languages, a click language.
And which might be the least accessible?
One of the films is called Pillow Girl, and it's literally just eight minutes of mid-1900s pulp-novel covers morphing into one another. - Evan West
March 3 - 5, 2006
Lake County Film Festival
Libertyville, IL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 30 Miles
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film wHOLE
March 8 - 10, 2006
Del Ray Beach Film Festival
Del Ray Beach, FL
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
March 22 - 26, 2006
East Lansing Film Festival
East Lansing, MI
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please
March 23, 2006
Lansing State Journal
The HUB
Quiet, Please
Director: Ronnie Cramer (USA, 2 minutes)
The film festival's program description says this of the film: 'Filmmaker Ronnie Cramer recently submitted to a one-hour, on-camera interview for a documentary about independent directors. 'Quiet Please' is a film document of the (almost) two minutes of silence that occurred between Cramer's responses.' Without that description, however, this film is weird and pointless. - Mike Hughes and Robin Swartz
March 24 - May 1, 2006
Green Lantern Studios
Mineral Point, WI
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
March 24, 2006
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Big Muddy Film Festival winners announced
CARBONDALE, Ill. � The Big Muddy Film Festival ran Feb. 22 through March 4. Judges in the 11-day event � one of the oldest film festivals affiliated with a university � awarded more than $3,500 in prizes. Attendance at this year's festival for the 65 to 70 films viewed at SIUC and in theaters throughout the region was 2,239.
The three jurors were experimental filmmaker Amy Granat, who is originally from St. Louis; French filmmaker/photographer Babette Mangolte; and renowned film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
Best Animation and Experimental Work � $250 awards
* "Dinner Table," directed by Song E. Kim, USA, 2006, 3 minutes.
* "Pillow Girl," directed by Ronnie Cramer, USA, 2006, 8 minutes.
* "Out of (K)Nowhere: A film by Anne Prat," directed by Christian Lebrat, France, 2006, 24 minutes.
Audience Choice Honors � No cash awards
* "Sex Slaves," directed by Ric Esther Bienstock, Canada, 2005, 89 minutes.
* "The Cats of Mirikitani," directed by Linda Hattendorf, USA, 2006, 74 minutes.
* "Pillow Girl," directed by Ronnie Cramer, USA, 2006, 8 minutes.
* "Alice Sees the Light," directed by Ariana Gerstein, USA, 2006, 6 minutes.
Best of the Fest Program
* "Pillow Girl," directed by Ronnie Cramer, USA, 2006, 8 minutes.
* "Dinner Table," directed by Song E. Kim, USA, 2006, 3 minutes.
* "Out of (K)Nowhere: A film by Anne Prat, directed by Christian Lebrat, France, 2006, 24 minutes.
* "The Cats of Mirikitani," directed by Linda Hattendorf, USA, 2006, 74 minutes.
- Pete Rosenbery
March 31 - April 2, 2006
Foursite Film Festival
Ogden, UT
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please
April 1 - May 5, 2006
Englewood Cultural Arts Center
Englewood, CO
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
Rain on Broadway named Best of Show
April 7, 2006
Mirage Art Gallery
2557 Walnut St.
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 20 - 26, 2006
Nashville Film Festival
Nashville, TN
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Quiet Please
April 2008
DishMag
Best of the Nashville Fest
Quiet Please (US � Ronnie Cramer)
Far too often, experimental film feels overbearingly serious.
This is understandable, when the elision of a splice or edit can explode a film�s possibilities of meaning,
but it also tends to shortchange the playful possibilities of the form. This short presents a man,
sitting in front of a bookcase, speaking� but all the words have been removed.
We are given only the pauses, exhalations, caesuras, and inhalations that lie in between the speaker�s words,
and the end result is a two-minute crash course in subtext that is delightfully funny and wickedly smart.
- Jason Shawhan
April 20 - 26, 2006
Harry M. Warner Festival of Short Film and Video
Slippery Rock, PA (April 20)
New Castle, PA (April 21)
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 26 - May 4, 2006
Indianapolis International Film Festival
Indianapolis, IN
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
April 28 - May 26, 2006
Commerce Gallery
508 S. Commerce.
Wichita, KS 67202
Sound-Art Performance by Ronnie Cramer
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
Screening of video material by Ronnie Cramer
April 28 - May 19, 2006
Brooklyn Arts Council International Film and Video Festival
Brooklyn, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 2006
Ronnie Cramer
Wichita
1. Pillow Girl Medley
2. Antartica
3. Catacombs
4. The Love of Knowledge is a Kind of Madness
5. Pale
6. Hector
7. The Master of Metropolis
8. Back to the Batcave
9. Amor
10. Pallas
Recorded 4/28/06 at Commerce Gallery | Wichita, Kansas
Produced by Ronnie Cramer
May 13 - 21, 2006
Lenola Film Festival
Lenola, Italy
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
May 18 - 21, 2006
Mendocino Film Festival
Mendocino, CA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 11 - July 21, 2006
Arts Council of Wayne County
Goldsboro, NC
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
June 19 - 24, 2006
Reel HeART International Film Festival
Toronto, Ontario
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
June 24 - August 19, 2006
River Bank Studios
Writghtsville, PA
Art exhibition featuring paintings and multi-media work by Ronnie Cramer
July 2006
Quick Throttle
Cover art by Ronnie Cramer
July 19, 2006
Museum of Contemporary Art Denver
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film The Art of Susan Wick
August 2006
Currys ArtWise
Watercolour Demo
'Ronnie Cramer walks you through this wonderful painting of a lily pond in six steps...'
August 3 - 5, 2006
Indie Gathering
Cleveland, OH
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Named Best Experimental Film
August 12 - September 10, 2006
Santa Cruz Art League
Santa Cruz, CA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
August 26 - September 29, 2006
Breckenridge Fine Arts Center
Breckenridge, TX
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
September 1 - 3, 2006
Twin Cities Underground Film Festival
Hotel Sofitel
5601 West 78th St.
Bloomington, MN 55439
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 7, 2006
CineChico International Short Films
Descarga Cubana Cafe Bar
280 Karangahape Road
Auckland City, New Zealand
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 22 - November 10, 2006
Foundry Art Centre
520 N. Main Center
St. Charles, MO 63301
Installation featuring Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
September 23 - November 12, 2006
Philadelphia Watercolor Society
106th International Anniversary Exhibition of Works on Paper
25 W. Third St.
Bethlehem, PA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
October 2006
St. Louis Riverfront Times
Video Killed the Renaissance Star
Imagine if the old masters � like Michelangelo, Sanzio and da Vinci � had access to video equipment; the mind boggles at what we'd be screening at the Louvre.
Fortunately for us, the contemporary crop of creatives is not limited to marble and canvas, so the Foundry Art Centre (520 North Main Center, St. Charles) is able to present the work of twelve video and animation artists in its new Video and Animation exhibit.
The hypnotic procession of buxom beauties in Ronnie Cramer's Pillow Girl, during which more than 200 vintage 'men's sweat' cheesecake paperback- and magazine covers morph into one another at a dizzying pace. - Mark Fischer
October 4 - 28, 2006
Texas Artists Museum
Port Arthur, TX
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
October 6 - 8, 2006
Coney Island Film Festival
3006 W. 12th St.
Brooklyn, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film 130 Seconds
October 6 - 8, 2006
Ellensburg Film Festival
Ellensburg, WA
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 8 - 22, 2006
Rio Brazos Art Exhibition
Tarleton State University
Granbury, TX
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
October 14, 2006
Museo de las Americas
861 Santa Fe
Denver, CO
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Olga
October 14, 2006
University of Nebraska
UNO Art Gallery
Weber Fine Arts Bldg.
Omaha, NE
Sound-Art Performance by Ronnie Cramer
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Highway Amazon
October 14 - 15, 2006
E.vil City Film Festival
Pioneer Theater
155 E. Third St.
New York, NY
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 15 - 20, 2006
Signals International Short Festival
Victoria Chambers
St. Runwald Street
Colchester Essex, UK
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 19, 2006
Absolute Arts
Indepth Arts News:
'Strange Cities: the Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape'
2006-10-19 until 2006-10-30
Reflect-arts, Inc. at Gallery 27+
New York, NY, USA
Reflect-arts, Inc. presents Strange Cities: the Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape from October 19 � October 30 at Gallery 27+, 242 West 27th St., New York, NY. This exhibit showcases 46 artists from 18 states expressing the notion of this theme with their unique imagination and craft. Strange Cities: the Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape features two dimensional creations in a variety of media, with imagery from the surreal, the representational, the abstract, the absurd, and to the downright bizarre.
Artists: Olivia Antsis, Ted Astor, Ron Beach, Adam D. Carreta, Michael Cevoli, Ronnie Cramer, Richard Des Jardins, Jeff Faerber, Mark Fernkas, Debra Friedkin, Simeon Gilmer, Victoria Goro-Rapoport, Matthew Gosser, Kevin Gross, Sandro Guerragarcia, Garfield Harry, Daniel Hauben, Steve Horan, Simon Huelsbeck, Jessica Irish, Gary Isringhaus, Thomas Jackson, Marcus Antonius Jansen, William Kerr, Doug LaRocca, Lisa Lebofsky, Jaewook Lee, Tommaso Leto, Richard Lubell, James Matthews, J. Adam McGalliard, Marc Moses, Dawn Revett, Johnston Robert H., Anthony Santella, Michael Santini, Elena May Siff, Anthony Stimola, Jennifer Tomaiolo, Carolyn Toye, Karen Voltz, Greg Watson, Jennifer Williams, S.P. Xyxx, Sebastian Zimmernann.
October 19, 2006
Chico News & Review
Palais Id�al builds up four days of experimental music
The fest will offer four days of all things off-beat in the world of music and performing arts. From chaotic noise rock to homemade instruments, folky expressionism to a pirate dirge . . .
Colorado�s Ronnie Cramer will give an elaborate multimedia performance with electronic music set to film imagery. - Charles H. Peckham V
October 19 - 22, 2006
Palais Id�al: A Festival of Adventurous, Strange and Visionary Music
1078 Gallery
820 Broadway
Chico, CA, 95928
Sound-Art Performance by Ronnie Cramer
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 19 - 22, 2006
Portland International Short Short Film Festival
Hollywood Theatre
Portland, OR
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
October 19 - 30, 2006
Strange Cities: the Unique and the Unusual in the Urban Landscape
27+ Gallery
242 W. 27th St.
New York, NY
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
October 22 - November 1, 2006
Worcester Artist Group
98 Tainter St.
Worcester, MA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
October 23, 2006
Rocky Mountain News
Red Hot Fundraiser
Beneficiario: Museo de las Am�ricas, which teaches Latin American culture and features ancient to contemporary Latin American art. Proceeds will benefit upcoming exhibitions and the museum�s remodel.
Trofeo: The Coraz�n (heart) Award, an inaugural award honoring those who make major contributions to the Museo, presented to Olga Garcia, corporate-relations manager of Coors Brewing Co. The presentation included an inspiring video by Ronnie Cramer.
- Dahlia Weinstein
October 25, 2006
The Orion
Artists experiment with offbeat ideas of music
High-pitched super sonic screeches, droning and distortion to make one's heart stop and ears bleed could be heard blaring from the 1078 Gallery from Thursday to Sunday. Artists, as strange as their music, added a certain disturbed element to all they played. Throughout the weekend, they defended sounds that may not traditionally be classified as music by asking the question, 'What is music?'
Ronnie Cramer's experimental multimedia project Pillow Girl created music from color and movement changes derived from a slideshow of clips from vintage erotic magazines. 'Sometimes it sounds like music and other times, it just sounds like noise,' Cramer said.
The show's concept alone made it one of the most memorable.
- Jeff Kell
October 31 - November 25, 2006
Impact Artist Gallery
Buffalo, NY
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 2006
Ronnie Cramer
Omaha
1. Antartica
2. Black Forest
3. Doris
4. Luxury and Squalor
5. Atlantic
6. Pillow Girl Lives Again
7. Themis
8. Rwah
9. Iris
10. Cathedral
Recorded 10/14/06 at the University of Nebraska | Omaha
Produced by Ronnie Cramer
November 2, 2006 - January 6, 2007
Council for the Arts
159 S. Main St.
Chambersburg, PA
Art exhibition featuring paintings by Ronnie Cramer
November 8 - 12, 2006
INVIDEO
Milan, Italy
Screening of Ronnie Cramer's film Pillow Girl
November 8, 2006

> - right up there with "Human Fly" by the Cramps, and better than Throbbing Gristle.
All apologies, but listening to music by someone I know while engaged in romantic endeavors weirds me out. Is it just me? - sl
Normally I would agree with Sarah about not making out to music by people I know, but Ronnie Cramer's Juno CD is so very...
*conducive*, I forget all about knowing the composer. :)