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Film / Music / Free Shit Oddsac
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 1:19 PM
- "Oddsac"
Danny Perez's 57-minute audiovisual freakout Oddsac, which premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival, looks to be about as weird as one might hope from a collaboration with Animal Collective, with an original score by the band that reportedly will only be released with the film.
Perez and members of Animal Collective appear at two sold-out shows Wednesday 3/17 at the Music Box Theatre. Oddsac tweeted this morning that tickets were available for volunteers.
Also from Twitter, via Stereogum: "ODDSAC, the Animal Collective film, makes Matthew Barney look like Matthew McConaughey. Trippy, dense, intense, atonal, dark, fractured” -@jamesrocchi
Film / Music 2001, Wizard of Oz, and Top Gun—Fast
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 11:59 AM
- Fair Use Trio
New York laptop jockeys The Fair Use Trio "use the picture and soundtrack of culturally significant films, drastically compressed in time, as the sole materials for an improvised set which interrogates our cinematic memories through frenetic audiovisual processing and re-narration of the cinematic object," according to Brooklyn's ISSUE Project Room.
The Fair Use Trio detourn 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Wizard of Oz, and Top Gun on Tuesday 3/16 at The Nightingale.
Film / Free Shit Our Trip to Africa
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 9:46 AM
- "Unsere Afrikareise"
Austrian filmmaker Peter Kubelka spent five years scrambling and reassociating images and sounds from a 1961 African hunting trip into the 12-minute Unsere Afrikareise, screening Monday 3/15 in a free program of landscape films at the School of the Art Institute.
"There is often a temptation to read direct thematic statements in many of the film's articulations. Editing connections are continually made on the white hunters' gazes, hand gestures, and gun-pointing, linking those actions to suggest the Europeans' aggression toward their surroundings," Fred Camper writes in Film Reference.
"Kubelka's cuts often suggest that a European has just 'shot' an African, or the forest itself. The Africans, by contrast, appear as part of nature, rather than separate from it. It would be a serious mistake, however, to limit one's perception of the film to such themes...The viewer is ultimately led out of time, to contemplate these connections in memory, and to regard the film as if it were a monument erected as a record of civilization, not as a statement on it but as a kind of totem for it."
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