[Frameworks] e:THE:REAL ZONE - psychedelic film programme at CAC, Vilnius

Sat Apr 25 17:00:04 UTC 2015

Oops, that was supposed to be an offlist reply. Apologies!
-h

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Francisco Torres <fjtorrespr at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Oh man, the colors...
>
> 2015-04-25 6:59 GMT-04:00 herb shellenberger <htshell at gmail.com>:
>
> Hey Stuart, hope your program went well.
>> I met you briefly with Will Fowler after that amazing motorcycle trip
>> film EXIT. I remember you were talking about this program and it's good to
>> see the lineup.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Herb
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 9:48 PM, Stuart Heaney <
>> chamber.of.curiosities at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone!
>>>
>>> Just to let you know I'm excited about the film programme I have curated
>>> for Lars Bang Larsen's new exhibition exploring psychedelia as a critical
>>> framework for contemporary art. It's happening from 7pm, this Friday 24th
>>> April at CAC in Vilnius, Lithuania. Please come if you're local or in town!
>>>
>>> It's called e:THE:REAL ZONE :: cinema in cibernetik space
>>> <http://www.cac.lt/en/cinema/sections/the-two-part-film-programme-ethereal-zone-cinema-in-cibernetik-space-curated-by-british-writer-and-programmer-stuart-heaney>
>>>
>>> Info (including poster), as follows:
>>> [image:
>>> http://www.cac.lt/en/cinema/sections/the-two-part-film-programme-ethereal-zone-cinema-in-cibernetik-space-curated-by-british-writer-and-programmer-stuart-heaney]
>>> <http://www.cac.lt/en/cinema/sections/the-two-part-film-programme-ethereal-zone-cinema-in-cibernetik-space-curated-by-british-writer-and-programmer-stuart-heaney>
>>> 
>>>
>>> Curated and presented by British independent writer and programmer,
>>> Stuart Heaney, tonight's two-part bespoke film programme will voyage
>>> through the labyrinthine, telescoping tunnels that connect the birth of
>>> psychedelic culture with recent artists' work, created in Britain and
>>> America, that subverts the perceptual promises and pitfalls of contemporary
>>> media technologies.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Join us for an extraordinary journey through the beating stroboscopic
>>> pulse of cinema in cibernetik space.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *Part 1 – RENDING THE PORTAL*
>>>
>>> We now exist in a distorted mirror future once imagined by the
>>> visionaries and multimedia pioneers whose hallucinatory experiments
>>> permeate the first part of tonight’s programme. Such experiments helped to
>>> found a dawning stroboscopic landscape of visionary electronic media,
>>> cybernetics and computer art. In California and elsewhere in the 1950s and
>>> ‘60s, freethinking Bohemian artists like Harry Smith, Jordan Belson and
>>> Storm de Hirsch embraced the otherworldly realities of tribal cultures.
>>> Venturing down the rabbit-hole opened up by ritual drugs such as hashish
>>> and peyote, as well as through yoga and meditation, they channeled their
>>> experiences into their abstracted art. Finding that traditional forms fell
>>> short of their visions, however, they embraced film and later video and
>>> early computer animation as the only media that might remotely begin to
>>> convey the liminal, perpetual dancing present of their experiences.
>>>
>>>
>>>  ALLURES (Jordan Belson, 1961) USA 8 mins
>>>
>>> Format: 16mm
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> NO.11: MIRROR ANIMATIONS (Harry Smith, 1960-79) USA 11 mins
>>>
>>> Format: 16mm film
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PEYOTE QUEEN (Storm de Hirsch, 1965) USA 9 mins
>>>
>>> Format:16mm film
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> INFLORESCENCE (John Gruenberger, 1971) USA 7 mins
>>>
>>> Format: 16mm, LUX
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> CIBERNETIK 5.3 (John Stehura, 1960-65) USA 8 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital Beta
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *THERE WILL BE AN INTERVAL OF APPROXIMATELY 20 minutes*
>>>
>>>
>>>  *Part 2 – IN CIBERNETIK SPACE*
>>>
>>> Today, some might comfortably assume that Psychedelia is a long extinct
>>> culture, yet its legacy infects every level of our contemporary experience,
>>> pervaded as it is with the mood-altering effects of pharmaceuticals and a
>>> media-saturated environment. The artists in Part 2 have recently responded
>>> to this predicament with tropes derived from Psychedelia's rhizomatic
>>> framework deploying them to reappropriate and disrupt film and video
>>> technologies' interface with and influence upon our perceptions of reality,
>>> challenging the boundaries of the dominant 16:9 aspect ratio imposed upon
>>> our mediation with the world. Enter the oceanic, transformative spaces of
>>> Stom Sogo, Simon Payne, Ian Helliwell and Sally Golding, who will present
>>> the Lithuanian premiere of a new expanded film performance.
>>>
>>>
>>>  UNDERTONE OVERTURE (Jodie Mack, 2013) UK 10 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> GUIDED BY VOICES (Stom Sogo, 2000) USA c.10 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> MOLECULAR FEEDBACK (Ian Helliwell, 2014) UK 3 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> IRIS OUT (Simon Payne, 2008) UK 10 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> PRIMITIVES (PHASOR COUNT) (Spatial, 2015) UK 5 mins
>>>
>>> Format: Digital file
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL (Sally Golding, 2014-5) UK 10 mins
>>>
>>> Format: expanded
>>>
>>>
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