Kraak-Festival 2007 :
3. March 2007 Hasselt / Belgium
Early-teen tantrums exist in a paralell life..
R. Stevie Moore Video Retrospective 1977-1987
Directed by R.Stevie Moore / Nuno Monteiro, compiled by Tim Tetzner, 50 min
Often referred as the forefather of lo-fi home recording and DIY outsider art, R.Stevie Moore has maintained a remarkably low profile throughout a career which began in the early-1970s. Heavily influenced by the music of Brian Wilson, The Beatles, Mothers of Invention and the British Invasion, Moore’s self-released one-man band music is a virtuoso showcase and best proof for his enormous skill, traversing countless musical forms into nearly perfect pop songs. Over the years Moore also
produced a remarkable body of video works for home use only, whose no-budget production methods reflect the charming spontaenity of his eclectic and outstanding artistic vision. The
program presented here is just a small but maybe representative excerpt of R. Stevie Moore extensive video production throughout the years :
R. Stevie Moore – 1980 TV Commercials (01:16)
R. Stevie Moore – I’m Scared (1977, 02:02)
R. Stevie Moore – Mason Jar (1975, 04:29)
R. Stevie Moore – Back in Time (1986, 04:43)
R. Stevie Moore – No Body (1980, 02:42)
R. Stevie Moore – Copy Me (1984, 03:56)
R. Stevie Moore – Interview/Going Down The Way (1984, 09:45)
R. Stevie Moore – Why Should I Love You? (1987, 03:13)
R. Stevie Moore – Zebra Standards 29 (1978, 05:53)
“If rock and roll was a baseball game, then R. Stevie Moore would be playing left field…”
www.rsteviemoore.com
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Tripping With Caveh
Caveh Zahedi, Music : Will Oldham, USA 2004, 32 min
It is Caveh Zahedi’s fondness for experimental setups in films and his love for Will Oldham’s music that makes this film a very intimate and felicitous concept feature : Zahedi invites Oldham to join him trippin on magic mushrooms for his next film project. as this is their first meeting ever, the setting starts off friendly but distanced and completely changes with the flash of the hallucinogen.
www.cavehzahedi.com
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No-Neck Blues Band – Work in Progress
Directed by Adam Mortimer, USA 1995-2005, 40 min
The video works of Adam Mortimer – a loosely affiliated member of the No-Neck Blues Band –are an unambiguously appreciative aesthetic enhancement of this Free-Form-Experimental collective’s somewhat inaccessible musical oeuvre. Informed by experimental film of the 1960s, Mortimer’s visual language always functions simultaneously on several layers of meaning, in both ad hoc and indirect fashion. His short films keep viewers guessing for long stretches, before suddenly culminating in a clear plot.
www.adamegyptmortimer.com
www.theserth.com
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Pilgrimage from scattered points
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 to 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 making.
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Sumatran Folk Cinema
Sublime Frequencies, Alan Bishop + Mark Gergis, USA 2006, 60 min
A psychedelic collage of images and sounds from the heart and soul of Sumatran culture. Witness classic Dangdut rock music, street and country scenes, Pop culture, raw TV excerpts, Minang Orchestras, night markets, folk music, and much more wrapped in a 60-minute kaleidoscope complete with an epic soundtrack. Filmed in and around Medan, Padang, Bukitinggi and beyond with some of the most amazing pre-tsunami footage ever captured from Aceh province. Shot by Mark Gergis and Alan Bishop on location in 2004.