Transit 2006 :
16.-18. November 2006 Chiasso / Switzerland
Pilgrimage from scattered Points
directed by Luke Fowler, UK 2006, 45 min.
A film about the english composer Cornelius Cardew and the Scratch Orchestra, that Cardew formed back in 1968 from his ‘experimental music’ class. As an fluid collective of students, office employees, amateur musicians and professional composers who explore the boundaries of group improvisation and social engineering on the other hand. Fowler’s film attends the internal contradictions and struggles of the Scratch Orchestra through first person interviews, recent and archival footage and predominantly unreleased music and skillfully expands the narration of the documentary through techniques of experimental film.
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Backscatter
directed by Robin Fox, AUS 2004, 10 min. excerpt
Australian sound artist Robin Fox’ composition for the cathode ray oscilloscope is based on the simple electro-technical effect that electricity generates sound to excite a single light photon across a phosphorous screen. The result of this one-to-one audio-visual relationship is as obvious as breathtaking and its psycho-acoustic quickly soakes the viewer in a constant flow of synaptic stimulation and mental awareness. Backscatter evolves a deep, trance-like state, that hits the mark through its simplicity, richness and variety in form and patterns.
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La Ciudad
directed by Gill Arno / Mpld, music : Criterion, USA 2005, 15 min, excerpt
As La Ciudad translates with ’city’, this short by brooklyn based video artist Mpld can be seen as an appendix to AGF + Sue.C’s MiniMovies : whilst La Ciudad’s moving and constantly pulsating images pay attention to the adrenalinic and unstoppable flow of the urban surface of NYC, the music of Broklyn Beats artist Criterion ambivalently clashes the abstract of the noise with the repetetive of the broken beat. Both, music and image are subject to its place of origin and can be seen as a piece of contemporary urban folk art.
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Fourtythousand3hundred20 memories
directed by AGF + SUE.C, USA / FRG 2005, 28 min.
German based laptop composer AGF and American multimedia artist SUE.C with their recent collaborative work, crafted from thousands of photographs and manipulated into and out of pixels. As a visual patchwork mystery of everyday life, this hand-drawn, self-tattered abstract travel diary reflects the personal relationship and tributes
www.minimoviemovement.com
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Day Trip Maryanne
directed by Andrew Kesin, USA 2004, 30 min.
Since the late 60s, Maryanne Amacher has been active as a multimedia artist, performer and composer and collaborated with John Cage on a couple of projects. Her output as a sound artist is rather as slim as her live performances are rare occasions that shouldn’t be missed. Day Trip Maryanne was shot-on-location one afternoon, when Thurston Moore and Andrew Kesin met Amacher at her studio apartment what resulted in a rough-cut documentary of seldom beauteousness.
www.ecstaticpeace.com
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Rafael Toral – Space studies
directed by Rafael Toral, 2006 Portugal, 15 min.
Live performance specifications Glove-controlled, computer sinewaves Modified pocket amplifier feedback with light-controlled filter Modulated white noise generator with theremin control Multiple electronic devices and circuits, including the electrode oscillator
www.rafaeltoral.net
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MM 51 / Nosferatu
directed by Mauricio Kagel, FRG 1977, 24 min.
Even though Argentinian resident Mauricio Kagels output as a film maker is tremendous, he achieved his reputation for his work as a new music composer. As a film within the film, MM51 was produced as accompanying film music of piano and metronome for Murnau’s silent film classic ‘Nosferatu’. This low quality version has a an impressive extra part with Kagel commenting on the film, produced for the public german television in the late seventies.
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House
directed by Gabriel Shalom, USA 2005, 18 min.
As a lesson in well done edutainment, Gabe Shaloms House tracks down the different styles, production procedures and cultural habits of electronic dance music. Switching between the fast cutted videoclip aesthetic and the fact based narrative of an interview with Dj Scott Hardkiss, this videomusic documentary stands for an inspiring new genre of music related film.
www.thegoblins.com
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The Crisp Chronicles
directed by Chelmsford Film Society, UK 2005, 10 min.
Andy Jenkinson, the Rephlex-artist better known as Ceephax Acid Crew with his maybe filmclass mates on an animated couch potato trip of weird british freakiness. In a world of crisp inhabitants the rules of life are equally to our real life : stupidity, liars, violence and finally a sad, crumbling end. Includes forcing soundtrack by Ceephax Acid Crew.
www.ilovecrisps.com
www.chelmsfordfilmsociety.com
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Anima-Sound – Europa Tournee mit 20 km/h
directed by SWF, FRG 1971, 40 min.
Filmed by the German television in 1971, this documentary accompanies the artists Paul and Limpe Fuchs and their two children on a three month tour through Europe. With an old tractor hauling a self constructed trailer that can be converted into a stage, they performed their self build instruments, percussion and electronic devices wherever they were : in Munich’s pedestrian zone, in front of a miners audience in the Ruhr District or in the countryside under the stars. This film is a rare and haunting document of some of Krautrocks outstanding pioneers.
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Cinemage (something whitch wasn’t said)
directed by Aki Onda, USA 2006, excerpt 10 min.
From the deep end of NYC, Japanese music improviser Aki Ondas hommage to the american cinema noir : composed of 35 black and white photographs of abstract beauty, that slowly move like slide projections on a fateful sunday afternoon. Accompanied by the loose and alienating guitar improvisations of Loren Connors and Alan Licht.
www.japanimprov.com/aonda
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Interview with Baby Dee
directed by Alice Rose, FRG 2006, 45 min.
Transgender street legend, high-rise tricylist and concert harpist Baby Dee in an interview feature during her 2006 tour with Current 93. If Baby Dee might be seen as one of nowadays astonishing outsider artists, numerous fun and fake stories about her work, proof a rather bizarre and humorous Gesamtkunstwerk. Plus some impressive live show footage.
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