Back FILMFORUM — REGARDING PENELOPE’S WAKE Filmmaker Michele Smith’s Regarding Penelope’s Wake is a weave of appropriated 8mm scraps that are insignificant in their individual content but evocative in their amalgamation of color, movement, composition and pacing. The complete piece is an opus of visual music, with harmonies of slow pans and fades that drift and pile up in a sensual heap. The various refrains of Smith’s found footage — underwater fish fins, swarms of city pedestrians, flames, a skidding motorcyclist, jiggling porn, cartoonish paramecia and architectural forms — pop off like machine-gun rounds. In some spots, edits shuffle so frequently the piece becomes merely a vibration. Smith constructed her Frankenstein over the course of two years, with two tools: a guillotine splicer and a few hundred rolls of Scotch tape, making for a fragile skin, too thick to project in spots. Thus, it’s been painstakingly transferred to DVD — with an unusually saturated, flickerless aesthetic —and will be screened digitally. A lovingly ham-fisted ode to structuralism, the film revels in the oxidization of its own emulsion — that purple-red hue of disintegration that comes from being forgotten in an attic — or in a 10-second shot musing on one hair trapped in the projection gate. There’s no accompanying soundtrack for the two-hour piece, so expect no respite from the visual barrage. Besides, 20 minutes in, you’ll notice a creeping cacophony in your own head. (Filmforum at the Egyptian; Sun., March 2, 7 p.m. 323-466-3456) —Wendy Gilmartin LA Weekly The Historical Preservation committee is hosting a walking tour this Sunday of Smithtown's "Old Town". The tour starts at 2:00 pm. At 5:00 pm there will be a presentation by our esteemed Curator, Roger Smith, at the Community Building on the history of Smithtown and it's founder "Smitty" Smithson. Mayor Smythe, will also make a presentation on the upcoming expansion of the Smithtown Library.