[Frameworks] This week [September 8 - 16, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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This week [September 8 - 16, 2012] in avant garde cinema
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THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMS (SUMMARY):
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* Films By Abraham Ravett [September 8, Los Angeles, California]
* Chantal Akerman Presents Michael Snow's La RÉGion Centrale [September 9, Brooklyn, NY]
* Refuge - Chicago's Own: Director Ethan Besinger In Person! [September 9, Chicago, Illinois]
* The Sounds of Silence 1: A Kind of A Hush [September 10, Houston, Texas]
* Jodie Mack At Massart Film Society [September 12, Boston, MA]
* L.A. Filmforum At Moca Presents Tricky Poses and Taxing Conditions:
Performance and Media (Encore Presentation From Alternative
Projections: Experimental Film In Los Angeles) [September 13, Los Angeles, California]
* Rework: video Dialect [September 14, Baltimore, MD]
* The New Babylon [September 14, Boston, Massachusetts]
* Saints of the Avant-Garde Series - Magnificat: Films By Pat O’Neill [September 14, Chicago, Illinois]
* From Subversive To Sublime: 25 Years of Dallas videofest [September 14, Dallas, TX]
* Yans & Reto [September 14, New York, New York]
* Erc Atx! [September 15, Austin, TX]
* Lost Horizon [September 15, Boston, Massachusetts]
* New Works Salon [September 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Breaking Ground: 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema - 6. Passing
Time [September 15, Los Angeles, California]
* Home Movies and the Avant-Garde: Program 1 [September 16, Chicago, Illinois]
* Touch.30 [September 16, New York, New York]
Events are sorted by CITY within each DATE.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
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9/8
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado St. (at Sunset)
FILMS BY ABRAHAM RAVETT
Abraham Ravett holds a B.F.A and M.F.A in filmmaking and photography and
has been an independent filmmaker for the past thirty years. In tandem
with a current exhibition of Polaroid SX-70 photographs at Orange Coast
College, Costa Mesa, CA, filmmaker and Hampshire College Professor
Abraham Ravett will present a program of recent and previously made
films. The screening includes three films that reflect the complexities
of filial relationships; the lingering impact of the Holocaust, and with
Horse/Kappa/House, the Japanese rural landscape is presented as a space
of loss, memory and collective history. Program: The March (1999),
Horse/Kappa/House (1995), and Tziporah (2007) on 16mm; Notes for a
Polish Jew (2012) on DVD. Presented and curated by Ravett's former
student Eve LaFountain.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
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9/9
Brooklyn, NY: Light Industry
http://www.lightindustry.org/
3pm, 155 Freeman Street
CHANTAL AKERMAN PRESENTS MICHAEL SNOW'S LA RÉGION CENTRALE
La Région centrale, Michael Snow, 16mm, 1971, 190 mins,
Introduced by Chantal Akerman - "You are here, the film is there,
it is neither fascism nor entertainment." - Michael Snow - Chantal
Akerman presents a screening of Michael Snow's La Région
centrale, an important influence that opened her mind "to the
relationship between film and your body, time as the most important
thing in film." - "For La Région centrale, Snow had a
special camera apparatus constructed...an apparatus capable of moving in
all directions: horizontally, vertically, laterally, or in a spiral. The
film is one continuous movement across space, intercutting occasionally
the X serving as a point of reference and permitting one to take hold of
stable reality. Snow has chosen to film a deserted region, without the
least trace of human life....In the first frames, the camera disengages
itself slowly from the ground in a circular movement. Progressively, the
space fragments, vision inverts in every sense, light everywhere
dissolves appearance. We become insensible accomplices to a sort of
cosmic movement....He catapults us into the heart of a world before
speech, before arbitrarily composed meanings, even subject. He forces us
to rethink not only cinema, but our universe." - Louis Marcorelles,
Le Monde - Tickets - $7, available at door. - Please note: seating is
limited. First-come, first-served. Box office opens at 2:30pm.
9/9
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
4:00 PM, Gorilla Tango’s Skokie Theater, 7924 Lincoln Ave., Skokie
REFUGE - CHICAGO’S OWN: DIRECTOR ETHAN BESINGER IN PERSON!
Co-presented by Gorilla Tango Theater. Refuge is a one-hour documentary
revealing the origins and originality of a resourceful Chicago community
that over generations has brought together more than 1,000 Central
European Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors under one roof.
Interweaving archival footage with testimony of the Selfhelp Home's
residents, founders, and historians, this film reaches back 70 years to
tell the experiences of this last generation before, during, and after
World War II. (2012, 60 min.) Admission: $10
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
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9/10
Houston, Texas: The Menhil Collection
http://www.menil.org/programs/TheSoundsofSilence.php
6pm, 1533 Sul Ross Street
THE SOUNDS OF SILENCE 1: A KIND OF A HUSH
The three-part series The Sounds of Silence tracks the many ways in
which media artists have engaged sound and its diminutive double,
silence. From the muted films of Stan Brakhage and Nathaniel Dorsky,
through the clamorous scores of Harry Smith and Peggy Ahwesh, to the
sampled sonorities of Warner Jepson and Stephen Vitiello, the series
follows the artist's use of film sound as it evolved through numerous
improvisations. The film program was organized by Steve Seid, Video
Curator of University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific
Film Archive. Thanks to Rice University, Department of Visual and
Dramatic Arts. A Kind of Hush, principally film with some video, looks
at silent films and a few with sound but sound that was either
completely unexpected at the time, or oddly arbitrary. Meshes of the
Afternoon Maya Deren & Hammid (1943, Silent/Sound, 14 mins, B&W, 16mm);
The Riddle of the Lumen Stan Brakhage (1972, Silent, 17 mins, Color,
16mm); Zen for Film Nam June Paik (1962-64, Silent, 8 mins, Color,
Video); Threnody Nathaniel Dorsky (2004, Silent, 25 mins, Color, 16mm);
four words for four hands (apples.mountains.over.frozen.) Steve Roden
(2006, Silent, 17 mins, Color, Video) Soundtrack Barry Spinello (1969,
Sound, 10 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm) . Steve Seid in person.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
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9/12
Boston, MA: MassART FILM SOCIETY
8pm, 621 Huntington Avenue
JODIE MACK AT MASSART FILM SOCIETY
MASSART FILM SOCIETY presents - JODIE MACK - http://www.jodiemack.com/ -
Program: - A Joy (2005, 3m, 16mm, color, sound) - A music video four
Four-Tet's "A Joy" made with ink and stained-glass contact paper. -
Lilly (2007, 6m, 16mm, color, sound) - Animated photo-negatives
illustrate a WWII tragedy. - Yard Work is Hard Work (2008, 28m, 16mm,
color, sound) - Part experimental animation, part romantic comedy, part
light critique of capitalism, this musical follows a pair of newlyweds
as they learn the perils of homeownership and life in general. -
Posthaste Perennial Pattern (2010 , 3m38s, 16mm, color, sound) -
Rapid-fire florals and morning birdsongs bridge interior and exterior,
design and nature - Rad Plaid (2010 , 6m, 16mm, color, silent or with
live sound) - A series of chromatic intersections. - Unsubscribe 1-4
(2010, 16m, 16mm, color/bw, sound/silent) - Formal studies of domestic
objects that enter the home via unwanted junkmail ask, questions and
seek answers about cinema, life, and (as always) love. #1: Special Offer
Inside (16mm, 4m30s, color, sound—optical +/- live) #2: All Eyes
on the Silver Screen (16mm x 2, 2m45a, b/w, silent) #3 Glitch Envy
(16mm, 5m45s, color, sound—optical + live) #4 The Saddest Song in
the World (16mm, 2m45s, color, sound—optical + live) - The Future
is Bright (2011, 2m45s, 16mm color, live sound) ‘Tis a
rhyme for your lips and a song for your heart...to sing it whenever the
world falls apart" - Point de Gaze (2012, 4m30s, 16mm, color, silent) -
Named after a type of Belgian lace, this spectral study investigates
intricate illusion and optical arrest. - Blanket Statement #1 (2012, 3m,
16mm, color, sound) - Discordant dysfunction down to the nitty griddy. -
- Jodie Mack is an independent animator, curator, and
historian-in-training who received her MFA in film, video, and new media
from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007 and currently
teaches animation at Dartmouth College. Combining the formal techniques
and structures of abstract/absolute animation with those of cinematic
genres, her handmade films use collage to explore the relationship
between graphic cinema and storytelling, the tension between form and
meaning. Mack's 16mm films have screened at a variety of venues
including the Anthology Film Archives, Images Festival, Velaslavasay
Panorama, Onion City Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Black Maria
Film Festival, and the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. She has also worked
as a curator and administrator with Dartmouth's EYEWASH: Experimental
Films and Videos, Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival, Portland
Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Eye and Ear Clinic, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, and Chicago's-favorite micro-cinema, The
Nightingale. Additionally, Mack is an Illinois Arts Council media arts
fellow and the 2010 co-recipient of the Orphan Film Symposium's Helen
Hill Award. - MASSART FILM SOCIETY, Programmed by Saul Levine, is a
screening class for MassArt film students open to those who are
interested. We hope to provide access to films and videos not often
shown at other venues. - http://massartfilmsociety.blogspot.com/
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
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9/13
Los Angeles, California: Filmforum
http://www.lafilmforum.org/
7:00pm, MOCA Grand Avenue’s Ahmanson Auditorium, 250 South Grand Avenue
L.A. FILMFORUM AT MOCA PRESENTS TRICKY POSES AND TAXING CONDITIONS:
PERFORMANCE AND MEDIA (ENCORE PRESENTATION FROM ALTERNATIVE PROJECTIONS:
EXPERIMENTAL FILM IN LOS ANGELES)
Los Angeles Filmforum at MOCA continues its bi-monthly series with
Tricky Poses and Taxing Conditions: Performance and Media, an encore
presentation from Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los
Angeles, a part of Pacific Standard Time. The screening delves into the
wide variety of entertaining ways that the act and art of performance
was integrated into film and video work in Los Angeles in the 1970s,
featuring works by such artists as Bas Jan Ader, Sam Erenberg, Morgan
Fisher, Cythia Maughan, Paul McCarthy, Susan Mogul, Bruce Nauman,
Richard Newton, Allan Sekula, Nancy Angelo and Candace Compton Pappas,
and Grahame Weinbren and Roberta Friedman. Much early video work
captured performance events in real time, utilizing this capability of
video and its distribution. Some works went further, to analyze the
nature of performance for media; replicating performances from past
performances; and confronting the challenging space created by bodies.
Less well known are films that also made these investigations. All films
that have people in them in some way involve performance; these
selections raise questions about the nature and purpose of performance,
and also playfully look at how the camera, filmmaker, and projectionist
also perform their roles. Program curated by Adam Hyman. In person: Sam
Erenberg, Susan Mogul, Richard Newton (subject to change) Special
thanks: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions TICKETS: $12, FREE for
members of MOCA or Los Angeles Filmforum (present your membership card
at the box office to claim tickets; no free tickets will be issued
without membership card. Tickets at moca.org and click on calendar.
Screening: Projection Instructions (Morgan Fisher, 1976, 16mm, 4min),
Performance Under Working Conditions (Allan Sekula, 1973, video, b/w,
20min), Pulling Mouth (Bruce Nauman, 1969, 16mm, b/w, silent, 8min), Ma
Bell (Paul McCarthy, 1971, video, b/w, 7min), Frozen & Buried Alive
(Cynthia Maughan, 1974-75, b/w, sound, 1:30min), Trajectory (Sam
Erenberg, 1977, color, super 8 transfer to HD, 4:19), Big Tip, Back Up,
Shout Out (Susan Mogul, 1976, video, b/w, sound, 10:20), Nun and Deviant
(Nancy Angelo, Candace Compton Pappas, 1976, b/w, 20:28), A Glancing
Blow (Richard Newton, 1979, super 8mm transferred to 35mm, color, sound,
3:10), Cheap Imitations 1: Méliès - India Rubber Head (Grahame Weinbren
& Roberta Friedman, 1980, 16mm, b/w, 5:30), I'm Too Sad To Tell You (Bas
Jan Ader, 1971, 16mm, b/w, silent, 3.5min)
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
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9/14
Baltimore, MD: Sight Unseen
http://www.sightunseenbaltimore.com/
9:00pm, Metro Gallery, 1700 N. Charles St.
REWORK: VIDEO DIALECT
reWork: video dialect focuses on contemporary artists who use the
language of video to establish new methods and idiosyncratic ways of
communicating visually. Featuring works by: David Baker, Stephanie
Barber, Sean Bnjmn, Mary Helena Clark, Justin Kelly, Phillipp
Lachenmann, Michael Robinson, Branden Rush, Phil Solomon, & Naren Wilks.
TRT: 80m. $5.
9/14
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
6:00 PM, Paramount Center, Bright Family Screening Room 559 Washington St., Boston, MA 02111
THE NEW BABYLON
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents The New Babylon. Considered
today to be the culminating achievement of the Soviet silent film era,
historical epic The New Babylon was filmmakers Grigori Kozintsev and
Leonid Trauberg's final silent work. Set during the 1871 Paris Commune,
the New Babylon luxury store clerk Louise joins the Communards to fight
for the cause, highlighting the clash and contrast between Parisian
workers and the bourgeoisie, capitalist functionaries and soldiers
manning barricades. Kozintsev and Trauberg depict this revolutionary
time with impressionistic cutting and metaphorical compositions in this
dazzling work. The original score by Dimitri Shostakovich uses period
French music and features an arrangement of "La Marseillaise." Tickets:
General Public: $10 | Students: $5 | Emerson Students: Free
www.artsemerson.org 617-824-8400
9/14
Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Filmmakers
http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/
8:30 PM, Second Unitarian Church of Chicago, 656 W. Barry Ave.
SAINTS OF THE AVANT-GARDE SERIES - MAGNIFICAT: FILMS BY PAT O’NEILL
Los Angeles-based filmmaker Pat O'Neill has been straddling commercial
cinema and the avant-garde since the 1970s. As an optical effects
artist, he has created special effects for many films including The
Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983) while making
his own highly original shorts. Combining optical printing with found
footage, abstract animation, and original cinematography, his films
offer a beautiful and often humorous tour of the American psyche by
drawing strange associations from disparate elements in order to form a
rich, layered collage. (1970-76, 74 min. total, 16mm) Admission: $8.
Down Wind (1973, 15 min.) Saugus Series (1974, 18 min.) Sidewinders
Delta (1976, 20 min.) Last of the Persimmons (1972, 6 min.) Runs Good
(1971, 15 min.)
9/14
Dallas, TX: Dallas Video Festival
7pm, 16986 N Dallas Pkwy
FROM SUBVERSIVE TO SUBLIME: 25 YEARS OF DALLAS VIDEOFEST
AMS Pictures Hosts Special Event, Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of
VideoFest, The special event will feature a mini-Festival of screenings
of VideoFest favorites from the past, a preview of this year's VideoFest
programs, a DVF poster and photography exhibition, a special
presentation by a panel of artists, and a silent auction featuring
unusual items. Tickets to the event are $25 per person or $40 per
couple, and include drinks, appetizers, and all entertainment. Tickets
can be purchased online at, http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3875922990
9/14
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
7:30 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
YANS & RETO
Inspired by the social atmosphere of porno cinemas and in the tradition
of cabaret, YANS & RETO is a one-night festival of action art by artists
over sixty and under thirty. The artists present themselves through
short (under seven minute) performance or video pieces, creating
energetic, inter-generational encounters. YANS & RETO is curated by Jana
Leo. The festival is organized by Mosis Foundation with the support of
Spain Culture New York-Consulate General of Spain. The 2010 and 2011
YANS & RETO festivals can be seen at fundacionmosis.com/English/yans.htm
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2012
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9/15
Austin, TX: Experimental Response Cinema
http://www.hi-beam.net/erc
8pm, Co-Lab Projects, 613 Allen St,
ERC ATX!
ERC ATX, in collaboration with Co-Lab Projects, is proud to present our
first show dedicated to local moving image artists. In conjunction to
our mission of bringing classical and contemporary experimental cinema
to Austin, ERC ATX aims to showcase the rich work that is happening
within our midst, while further fostering a community around an other
cinema. - Featuring work by Lyndsay Bloom, Jason Cortlund & Julia
Halperin, Nathan Duncan, Jarrett Hayman, Caroline Koebel, Metrah
Pashaee, Ekrem Serdar, Scott Stark and Rachel Stuckey.
9/15
Boston, Massachusetts: ArtsEmerson
http://ArtsEmerson.org
1:00pm, 559 Washington St.
LOST HORIZON
ArtsEmerson: The World on Stage presents Lost Horizon. Fleeing a Chinese
revolution, four civilians crash-land their hijacked plane in the
Himalayas and are rescued by the people of Shangri-la. Shrouded in
mystery, they discover a hidden world of peace and harmony in this
enchanted paradise where time stands still. Based on the best-selling
novel by James Hilton, director Frank Capra's masterpiece stars Ronald
Colman and Jane Wyatt, and was a box office hit at the time of its
release. Lost Horizon won Academy Awards for Art Direction (Set Design)
and Film Editing, and was widely circulated among the armed services
during World War II. Box Office: (617) 824-8400 General Public: $10 |
Members & Seniors: $7.50 | Students: $5 | Emerson Students: Free
9/15
Los Angeles, California: Echo Park Film Center
http://www.echoparkfilmcenter.org/
8 pm, 1200 N. Alvarado Street
NEW WORKS SALON
Several local and visiting artists will present new in-progress or
recently completed works. Bay Area-based Zach Iannazzi will be here with
two recent 16mm films; Wildness Regained! from 2008 presents factless
documents of a man-altered landscape, and his two-projector When I Get
Back From Massachusetts from 2011 in which New England bliss looms a
little strange. Local artist Pablo Valencia will project a new
collection of Super 8 miniatures: portraits, landscapes, abstractions.
And Pat O'Neill presents his new digital video Painter and Ball 4-14,
which is, in part, a record of summer overtaking spring outside my
studio window, while a chunky little manikin levitates in joyous
captivity. Ross Lipman will present the newest part of his The Perfect
Heart of Flux, a cycle of works on the nature of organic change: Casa
Loma (Dignity and Impudence). Casa Loma was the unfinished dream mansion
of Canadian industrial magnate Henry Pellatt. A self-made millionaire,
Pellatt was derided by fellow aristocrats for nouveau-riche pretentions:
the house and its décor considered by many an ornate fake. Its original
contents were sold at Pellatt's bankruptcy auction in 1924. Today the
building is a museum; its current curators filling its halls with
furniture and trappings of the general era. In one corridor, carefully
lit, is a folk-art portrait of two dogs accompanied by the sentimental
epithet, "Dignity and impudence."
9/15
Los Angeles, California: UCLA Film and Television Archive
http://www.cinema.ucla.edu
7:30 p.m., 10899 Wilshire Boulevard (intersection of Wilshire and Westwood Boulevards)
BREAKING GROUND: 60 YEARS OF AUSTRIAN EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA - 6. PASSING
TIME
The passage of time and a certain amount of distance were probably
necessary before visual artists began questioning the reality and
aftermath of Nazism. This program introduces several rarely screened
works that directly confront recent Austrian history, and they had
obvious and radical social, political and artistic repercussions for the
Viennese Actionists and the student protests of May '68. Time has passed
over dark horizons to become permeated with transforming cities or
history in neighbouring countries through the use of judiciously chosen
found footage. Works in this program include NS Trilogie Part II:
Feeling Kazet (1997); NIGHTSTILL (2007); KUNST & REVOLUTIONARY ART &
REVOLUTION (1968); 55/95 (1994); EIN DRITTES REICH (1975); TITO-MATERIAL
(1998); CITYSCAPES (2007); 20/68 SCHATZI (1968). Total running time: 79
min.
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2012
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9/16
Chicago, Illinois: Northwest Chicago Film Society
http://www.northwestchicagofilmsociety.org
7:00 PM, Cinema Borealis, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave, 4th Floor
HOME MOVIES AND THE AVANT-GARDE: PROGRAM 1
Presented in collaboration with the Chicago Film Archives as part of
Home Movie Day — The Program: [1] People Near Here (Ron Finne, 1969, 12
min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [2] Urban Peasants (Ken Jacobs, 1975,
60 min, 16mm from Film-makers' Coop) [3] Shit Rat (Dave Rodriguez, 2012,
20 min, 16mm from the artist) — For decades, home movies and avant-garde
films were jointly denigrated as 'amateur' in the least appealing sense:
precious, obscure, endless, and immeasurably handicapped by a lack of
professional polish. They were judged as failed attempts at
Hollywood-style filmmaking, though their aspirations and implications
often could not be more removed. In the 1960s, avant-garde filmmakers
like Jonas Mekas and Stan Vanderbeek began reclaiming the epithet of
'home moviemakers,' producing work that challenged the borders of
amateur cinema and domesticity itself. In honor of the tenth anniversary
of Home Movie Day, we present two programs of avant-garde films that
exalt, appropriate, and reshuffle home movies.
9/16
New York, New York: Anthology Film Archives
http://www.anthologyfilmarchives.org/
4:45 pm, 32 2nd Avenue
TOUCH.30
In September 2012 Touch, one of the premiere international labels for
experimental music, will present a series of events in Manhattan and
Brooklyn at ISSUE Project Room, Experimental Intermedia, and Anthology
Film Archives to celebrate their 30th anniversary. Since its first
release in 1982, Touch has created sonic and visual productions that
combine innovation with a level of care and attention that has made it
the most enduring of any independent music company of its time. The
label has presented a wide range of artists from New Order to Thomas
Köner, and now has a strong focus on artists such as Fennesz, Chris
Watson, Philip Jeck, Jana Winderen, Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi,
and Biosphere. This screening features THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY, the product
of a week-long treasure hunt to unearth old records, field recordings,
home-made sounds, and images, with audio by Philip Jeck & BJNilsen, and
LIQUID MUSIC, a piece featuring the music of Christian Fennesz, with
footage from Prague, Paxos, Crete, Cephalonia, Messinia, London, and
Monterey Bay. THE SUFFOLK SYMPHONY 2010, 48 minutes, video. Directed by
Mike Harding; visuals by Jon Wozencroft; audio by Philip Jeck &
BJNilsen. LIQUID MUSIC 2012, 40 minutes, video. Visuals by Jon
Wozencroft; audio by Christian Fennesz. Total running time: ca. 95
minutes.
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